Subject: Is Limited Atonement Bibical? |
Bible Note: Hello, Zach! This being "self-confession" day :-), I'll venture the admission that I was for 35 years a member of a church that subscribed to Reformed theology. Having thus bared my soul, I will confess that I came to believe less and less in certain planks of the Reformed theological platform, particularly in those involving divine election as they define it; and of its corollary belief known as limited atonement. I am no longer of the Reformed faith. I am not a Calvinist. But it is wrong to assume that because I am not a Calvinist, I then must be an Arminian. But I am not an Arminian. I am neither Calvinist nor Arminian. That's like saying that if one is a citizen of Europe and is not English then he must be French.... Your observation of Spurgeon is interesting, Zach, and rather telling I think, for from the gleanings I have made from his sermons, it appears quite certain that Charles Haddon Spurgeon did not embrace fully every theological idea that has been called variously by the names of Reformed and Calvinism. --Hank |