Subject: Is Limited Atonement Bibical? |
Bible Note: Hello Brother Zacht, I sincerely appreciate tour reply. It is my hope that we all may get to know each other thru our correspondence. I did read your initial post and I have taken into account your disagreement with calvinist (Reformed) theology. If I understand you correctly, you said that you were once a part of a church that that taught doctrines that ,over time, thru your personnal study of scripture,you came to disagree with.(The same thing happened to me, but I came to agree with the calvinists). Further down in your letter you state that you now have the liberty to express your conclusions based on Scripture and are not compelled to accept the interpretations of creeds or catechisms etc. I hope I have stated your contention accurately. If that was your problem I can't blame you for leaving. In my denomination (Presbyterian Church in America) the leadership would be brought before the session and disciplined for straying from the the Westminster Confession of Faith teaching which is: IX. The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture, is the Scripture itself; and therefore, when there is a question about the true and full sense of any scripture (which is not manifold, but one), it may be searched and known by other places that speak more clearly. X. The Supreme Judge, by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decress of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture. I did mean to say Unlimited Atonement. Thanks for catching that for me. Just one of the reasons I need my brothers. Your Brother, John |