Limited Atonement" is where I part ways, being a universalist and all (though core to any unmerited grace is the idea that only God decides who is saved, so maybe atonement is limited).
My view
No -----there is no Limited atonement by God -------God wants all people Saved according to scripture ---God does not decide who will be saved and who goes to hell -----we do ---
Now We Sinners can't choose God ----God chooses us ---So Calvinism has that right -what does this mean --God knows our hearts and who will be receptive to His word so God Has to change our Hardened hearts to a soft acceptable heart for us so we will accept His word in our heart and so Saving Faith can be inbirthed in us ----so we can become Born again ----
God Provided His Son to be the sacrificial atonement for all people -----then we decide if we want to participate in what Jesus did for us all ----our sins ==past --present and future are dealt with ---Jesus took on all sin for all people ---Sin now is not the issue -----the issue Now is accepting Jesus by Faith who took our sin for us----we can accept or reject this -----God does not force anyone to accept anything He has done ----
If Grace is unmerited and universal
My view on this
Grace in the Old Testament was a concept of a thing that God bestowed on His people ---the Israelite's constantly disobeyed God and He bestowed His Grace upon them by not actually killing them all for their wicked behaviour -----He granted them undeserved Favor --Grace
In the New Testament ---Grace is A Person not a concept of a thing or Doctrine that is bestowed on us -----Jesus the person is full of Grace ----Jesus is our Grace as He embodies God's undeserved Favor and Agape for Us all with what He accomplished on the Cross for us ---and we have free will to choose to receive and accept what He did or Reject it ------
Common Grace is universal --- in the way that God shows goodness to all His Creation no matter what their decision is or how they are living -----He allows the wicked to Prosper as well as His Children ---He makes it rain on the just and unjust ----The sun shines on all people ----when you open your eyes in the morning that is His unmerited favor to us -----we don't deserve any good treatment from God what so ever ---we deserve His wrath and death ---
Saving Grace is also universal as God Desires all people to come to His accept His Saving Grace through Faith in Jesus Christ ---So Saving Grace is applied through means and not just from God's power like it was in the Old Testament -----and we can resist this Grace it is nor irresistible like Calvin says -----
I'm also not really into "Total Depravity"
I personally do not think we are totally depraved humans as Calvinism says which says to me we have to sin --we have no restraint to stop ourselves ----
I say ------To act on Sin is a choice---to act on committing adultery is a choice we make ---it is not beyond our scope to refuse to commit this sin -----Stealing is a choice we make to steal ---we don't have to steal the item -----we choose to do it ----Worshiping another god is a choice --we don't have to worship another god ------
We have the Nature to Sin but we can stop ourselves from committing the act if we so choose
----God told Cain Sin is crouching at your door and you have to master it ---so we can have restraint to curb acting out the sin ----
We are not totally Depraved to do good and kind things in this world ------
All people are able to do acts of kindness and do good in society -----what can't be done is Giving God the Glory for those good deeds as sinners are away from God -----according to scripture ---and all good deeds are suppose to be done to give God the Glory not us ----
Calvinism is just another Man Made Religion making up their own Doctrine --in my view ---I stay clear of all man made religions ---don't want nothing to do with them at all -----
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