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  • Atonement Thoughts

    How did Christ atone for His People?
    Protestant Theologians debate whether it was in an Equivalent or Exact Sense:
    Equivalent:
    “Not indefinite as to the duration, still…equivalent as to the value on account of the Person suffering.” -Turretin
    Exact:
    “Christ “made satisfaction by undergoing the same punishment…they themselves were bound to undergo…essentially the same in weight and pressure, though not in all accident of duration and the like.” -Owen, quoted in “He Died for Me” p. 114.
    Unsure:
    “He was to suffer what we were to suffer, if not the exact, every way the same, yet the equivalent, that which was sufficient to Christ’s ends” -Thomas Manton, quoted in “He Died for Me” p. 118.

  • Book Review: He Died for Me-Limited Atonement and the Universal Gospel

    He Died for Me: Limited Atonement & the Universal Gospel by Jeffrey D. Johnson

    My rating: 3 of 5 stars


    One of the more complex works on inter-Calvinistic debates that I have read. This book would be helped by further editing and formatting, as well as more explanation with less subdivisions. It would also be helped by less scapegoating arguments towards high Calvinists. Overall, his argument for strict Calvinism was forceful, but I remain unconvinced.



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