3. Although most of us would agree that Christ shed His blood for us as believers, where we part ways is that He died for ALL men. If Limited Atonement is true than the Bible is wrong when it states in 2 Peter 2:1 that He even bought the false teachers that deny Him. 1 John 2:2 says that not only did Christ die for our sins, but the sins of the whole world! Through the teaching of this doctrine, you create a different Cross and a different Christ than that of Calvary. Repeatedly through the Scriptures it is proclaimed that Christ died for all men and yet the 5 point Calvinist says otherwise. They believe Christ only died for the elect. This means that they believe contrary to the Scriptures. Even John the Baptist knew this truth when he proclaimed, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”(John 1:29) To say otherwise is a grave heresy!
In Summary: MY GOD DIED FOR ALL MEN!
4. Although most of us agree that His grace is sufficient, it is also resistible. We see this in Scripture with the rich young ruler. He asks Christ what he must do to be one of His followers. Christ replies by telling him to sell everything and follow Him. What is the response from the young man? He rejects Christ grace!
Moreover, unless God sovereignly changes their wills by a grace that is irresistible, they will never submit to God or repent. Even though people might think they have the choice to repent, they are making a wrong assumption according to the 5 point Calvinist. If they don’t repent, they are actually doing the only thing they can do, because God didn’t grant to them His irresistible grace. If they do repent, they are actually doing what would be impossible for them not to do, because God is sovereignly influencing and changing them by a grace that is irresistible. Thus, they are making no choice at all in the matter of salvation. Rather, God is choosing them and making them into believers. He is changing their wills, because totally depraved people, according to the 5 point Calvinist, would never, and could never, humble themselves or choose to repent.
If this is so, then it is not too strong of a statement to say that 5 point Calvinists believe that God makes people believe in Christ and be born again against their wills, because they would never and could never have chosen to believe and be born again otherwise. Given the choice, they would have preferred to stay in sin, not repent or believe, and never be born again. Just before God bestowed His “irresistible grace” upon them, had you asked them if they wanted to repent and follow Jesus, they would not have wanted to. But, moments later, God forces them into doing what they would have resisted moments earlier, would never have wanted, and could not have done. Thus, every person whom God causes to be born again, He causes them to be born again against their wills, and that is what 5 point Calvinists believe even if they say they don’t. As Spurgeon said, “they would have refused to come as others do unless God’s grace had sweetly influenced their wills.” God sweetly forces us to believe. That’s about as politically correct as they can put it. That is to the liking of saying that someone sweetly took a precious life. Call it want you want, but, murder is murder and force is force. If you do not want to be saved and then God makes you want to be saved, that means He is forcing you against your will, period! If you stick a gun to a person’s head and say, “You are going to love me!” do you really think that they will love you? Of course not.
In summary: MY GOD IS NOT LIMITED IN HIS SOVEREIGNTY ENOUGH TO NOT CREATE MEN WITH THE ABILITY TO MAKE A CHOICE AND WOULD NEVER FORCE ANYONE TO LOVE HIM AGAINST THEIR WILL!
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