I often read in pieces written by hypercalvinists and even strict High Calvinists the the sentiment that Christ only came to save the elect. Or at the very least, there is often a hesitancy to speak of Christ’s mission to save the non-elect, as if its an expression of the very office and purpose of [...]
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For those interested, they may want to read Paul Hartog’s extended booklet on Calvin and the extent of the atonement.
A Word for the World: Calvin on the Extent of the Atonement.
The work is an excellent contribution to the literature on this subject.
David
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1) He says that whether GOD’s word bring life or death to men, yet it always a good and sweet savor before GOD. True it is that God’s word of itself (as it shall be declared more fully hereafter) is always the savor of life . For what is it that God aims at, if [...]
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Hence it ought to be observed, that whenever the Church is afflicted, the example of the Prophet ought to move us to be touched (sumpatheia) with compassion, if we are not harder than iron; for we are altogether unworthy of being reckoned in the number of the children of God, and added to the holy [...]
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Back in November 2008, Richard Muller presented a number of lectures on Lapsarianism and Hypothetical Universalism.
In the lectures on hypothetical universalism he lists many names and authors who held to a non-Amyraldian hypothetical universalism. Here we see one of his clearest definitions of speculative hypothetical universalism and non-speculative hypothetical universalism. If you go here http://theologicalmeditations.blogspot.com/2009/03/mullers-mid-america-lectures.html
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