What’s your “perspective” on Romans 5:18?
Romans 5:18, KJV: "Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life."
I have explained that verse a few times here already. On her own, the passage from Romans 5:12-19 appears to lend support to the Calvinist position of limited atonement.
In this passage, Paul is saying that all of us, having descended from Adam, are born in sin.
We didn’t have a choice there, it is enough to be a human being for us to be born in sin.
Yet, in order to be saved, Jesus being our substitute is not sufficient in itself, we need to receive it by faith (v17), in order to be righteous.
No doubt you just need to receive this free gift by faith so Jesus made it very easy for us to be saved, he has done all the work.
But from this acknowledgement, I do understand why some people might find the concept of limited atonement appealing.
It will solve the asymmetry problem. If Adam sin is indeed so powerful that it condemns all human beings to be born with sin, not giving us any choice, it may make sense to also believe that Jesus, being the final Adam, did at least an equally powerful work, by making this salvation irresistible to those who are elected by God.