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Jesus paid the penalty for those who deny faith in Him, and His death was a substitutionary atonement for those who deny Him—Though the term unlimited atonement can easily give the incorrect assumption that Jesus' payment encompassed all people, unlimited atonement maintains a limit on the legal effect.
Jesus promises that whosoever believes in him has everlasting life. John 3:16; Peter proclaims that everyone who calls upon Jesus will be saved. Acts 2:21; God calls all people everywhere to repent. Acts 17:30, 2 Peter 3:9; God desires all people to be saved. 1 Timothy 2:4; Jesus is a ransom for all. 1 Timothy 2:6
The text also makes no note of why there is a two-day delay between the opening of the tombs upon Jesus' death and the saints' appearance in the city only after Jesus' resurrection. If these events only happen two days hence, why are they mentioned here and not with the miraculous events of the resurrection in Matthew 28:2? Some later ...
El Greco's Jesus Carrying the Cross, 1580. Substitutionary atonement, also called vicarious atonement, is a central concept within Western Christian theology which asserts that Jesus died for humanity, [1] as claimed by the Western classic and paradigms of atonement in Christianity, which regard Jesus as dying as a substitute for others.
16. "Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established." — Proverbs 16:3. 17. "But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.
Justification made possible for all through Christ's death, but only completed upon choosing faith in Jesus. [36] Conversion: Monergistic, [37] through the means of grace, irresistible. Monergistic, [38] [39] through the means of grace, resistible. [40] Synergistic, resistible due to the common grace of free will. [41] [42] Perseverance and ...
That is, when Jesus died on the cross, his death paid the penalty at that time for the sins of all those who are saved (past, present, and future). [22] One obviously necessary feature of this idea is that 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 ...
Matthew's crucifixion scene runs for only sixteen verses from 27:35 to 27:51, the same number of verses as in the Gospel of Mark, but one more than the Gospel of Luke, and three more than the Gospel of John. It is postulated that all writers wished to simply recall the facts surrounding Jesus' death, rather than engage in theological reflection.