then the question becomes, what was the atonement? did what Christ did actually accomplish anything?
was atonement for sin made? were sins paid for? and whose?
if it was a real atonement, sins were paid for, so if Christ died for all men without exception, all men's sins were paid for and no one should be in hell, right?
Calvinist mind games in full effect right thurr.
Heres what the atonement did: The atonement justified God's mercy. Now we can repent and go to God's throne with boldness and have our conscience purified of dead works by the blood of Jesus.
Yall keep making the same errors of thinking that once atonement is made, everything is automatically fine. How many times must you be shown from the bible how the day of atonement worked? The atonement was made for all of Israel:
Leviticus 16:34
And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel
for all their sins once a year. And he did as the Lord commanded Moses.
If you interpret this like the calvinists playing mind games this means that all Israel was automatically saved by that sacrifice, all sins for the entire year was atonened for. No ifs and buts about it. Unfortunately reality strikes again:
Leviticus 23:28-29
And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.
For
whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
There we go. Looks like the atonement that was made for ALL ISRAEL, yet all Israel's sins wasnt wiped away (or covered since they could never take away sins) automatically for the year just because atonement was made. Calvinists will never preach on this because it refutes their doctrines and stops their mind games.
You can read the other translations on those verses too since i know yall dont rock with the KJV, the other ones say humble yourself or deny yourself, the point still stands.