The link above also teaches that....
Calvinists typically argue that Christ's death on the cross paid not a general penalty for all of humanity's sins, but a specific penalty for the sins of individual people (his elect).
So, according to most Calvinists, Christ's atonement is limited in its effect only to those whom God has chosen to be saved, since the debt for sins was paid at a particular point in time (at the crucifixion).
Others, however, argue that the atonement paid for the sins of the whole world. The debt is paid once and for all. God's wrath is appeased once and for all. Sin is conquered, the law is fulfilled and thus the power of sin is destroyed. What Adam's sin destroyed, Christ's cross repaired.
Thus, men aren't judged for breaking the law. Adam is not judged for eating the fruit. Christ did not come to judge men for their wrong doing.
Jn. 12: For I did not come to judge the world, but to save it.
So what will judge them if not their sin? What condemns them to hell?
"48 There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day.
Why do they perish?
" They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved." - Paul
Why didn't they enter the promised land?
Heb. 3:19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.
The wrath can be satisfied for the whole of the body, but the condition unfulfilled by the individual to which the appeal is made. Even in the OT, the priest could bring a sufficient sacrifice for the whole, but if the individual didn't come to the temple to confess their sin it benefitted them not.
They didn't perish for lack of atonement, but for lack of faith.
