The Atonement: What did it REALLY Accomplish?
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The Blood of the Covenant cont
Yes, The Blood of the Covenant brings out the Prisoners, those that were captive by the devil 2 Tim 2:26
26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
The Blood of the Covenant opens blind eyes ! Isa 42:7
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
We by Nature are Spiritually blind ! Acts 26:1867
18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Thats the giving also the eye of Faith. To open their eyes, not to offer it.
Paul was a Minister of the New Covenant 2 Cor 3.. The Covenant Blood of Christ demands that all for whom He died be given Spiritual sight.. Hence Jesus says Jn 6:40
40And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Yes, The Blood of the Covenant brings out the Prisoners, those that were captive by the devil 2 Tim 2:26
26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
The Blood of the Covenant opens blind eyes ! Isa 42:7
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
We by Nature are Spiritually blind ! Acts 26:1867
18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Thats the giving also the eye of Faith. To open their eyes, not to offer it.
Paul was a Minister of the New Covenant 2 Cor 3.. The Covenant Blood of Christ demands that all for whom He died be given Spiritual sight.. Hence Jesus says Jn 6:40
40And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Perfected forever !
Heb 10:14
14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
This is one of the many many ways we know the scripture does not teach that Christ died for all mankind without exception, the fact being, those He did die for [ one offering] he hath by that death, perfected them forever !
From the merits of His death effects their sanctification in time by the Holy Spirit. The text here states that He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. The word sanctified here is the greek word hagiazo and means:
to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow
to separate from profane things and dedicate to God consecrate things to God
dedicate people to God
to purify
to cleanse externally
to purify by expiation: free from the guilt of sin
to purify internally by renewing of the soul
And its a present passive participle, meaning they are being sanctified or renewed.
This being set apart for the active purpose of God, the internal renewing as per Titus 3:568
5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
All this renewing and sanctifying work is being done as an accomplishment of the offering of Christ and its resultant perfecting forever.
So either Christ death will eventually cause all to be renewed by the Holy Ghost [ Titus 3:5] which we know is not the case, or His death was limited to only some, who will be renewed by the Holy Ghost or we deny the Truth of the accomplishment of His offering [death] that it hath perfected forever them He died for.
Heb 10:14
14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
This is one of the many many ways we know the scripture does not teach that Christ died for all mankind without exception, the fact being, those He did die for [ one offering] he hath by that death, perfected them forever !
From the merits of His death effects their sanctification in time by the Holy Spirit. The text here states that He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. The word sanctified here is the greek word hagiazo and means:
to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow
to separate from profane things and dedicate to God consecrate things to God
dedicate people to God
to purify
to cleanse externally
to purify by expiation: free from the guilt of sin
to purify internally by renewing of the soul
And its a present passive participle, meaning they are being sanctified or renewed.
This being set apart for the active purpose of God, the internal renewing as per Titus 3:568
5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
All this renewing and sanctifying work is being done as an accomplishment of the offering of Christ and its resultant perfecting forever.
So either Christ death will eventually cause all to be renewed by the Holy Ghost [ Titus 3:5] which we know is not the case, or His death was limited to only some, who will be renewed by the Holy Ghost or we deny the Truth of the accomplishment of His offering [death] that it hath perfected forever them He died for.
I have finished the Work !
The Lord Jesus Christ in contemplation of His impending death and subsequent resurrection from the dead for all whom the Father hath given Him in the Everlasting Covenant, as Surety for their sins against the Law of God, stated this ! Jn 17:4
4I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
The word finished here is the greek word Teleioo and means:
to make perfect, complete
to carry through completely, to accomplish, finish, bring to an end
to complete (perfect)
add what is yet wanting in order to render a thing full
to be found perfect
to bring to the end (goal) proposed
to accomplish
bring to a close or fulfilment by event
of the prophecies of the scriptures
Christ has left nothing undone, all completed. Now what is the Work that God the Father gave Him to do ?
It was nothing less than to seek and to save that which was Lost Lk 19:10
10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
That is the work that God the Father gave to His Son to accomplish. Jn 6:38-40
38For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
39And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Not one Lost soul for whom the Father gave to the Son to seek and to save should be Lost, if it is, Christ is a liar and has left undone the Work which His Father gave Him to do. 69
The Lord Jesus Christ in contemplation of His impending death and subsequent resurrection from the dead for all whom the Father hath given Him in the Everlasting Covenant, as Surety for their sins against the Law of God, stated this ! Jn 17:4
4I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
The word finished here is the greek word Teleioo and means:
to make perfect, complete
to carry through completely, to accomplish, finish, bring to an end
to complete (perfect)
add what is yet wanting in order to render a thing full
to be found perfect
to bring to the end (goal) proposed
to accomplish
bring to a close or fulfilment by event
of the prophecies of the scriptures
Christ has left nothing undone, all completed. Now what is the Work that God the Father gave Him to do ?
It was nothing less than to seek and to save that which was Lost Lk 19:10
10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
That is the work that God the Father gave to His Son to accomplish. Jn 6:38-40
38For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
39And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Not one Lost soul for whom the Father gave to the Son to seek and to save should be Lost, if it is, Christ is a liar and has left undone the Work which His Father gave Him to do. 69
nope ... giving you sound advice.
Since when is telling you to "READ YOUR BIBLE!!!" anything less than what God's Word tells you to do?
Ephesians 4:14-15 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and]cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ
Since when is telling you to "READ YOUR BIBLE!!!" anything less than what God's Word tells you to do?
Ephesians 4:14-15 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and]cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ
https://testallthings.com/2012/01/02/a-study-of-mark-15-verses-33-and-34/
Jesus suffered for eternity in our 3 hrs time in Hellfire. Remember God is outside of our time.
Timeline
Jesus lived perfect sinless life=Jesus knees on garden of gethsemane sweating tears of blood because Jesus knows he will have to pay the penalty for all of God's elects sins which is Hellfire=3 hrs of darkness (sign of judgment) all over the whole world, Jesus suffers the cup of the wrath of God=Jesus says "it is finished" which means paid the full eternity punishment for God's elects=After Jesus died physically, during 3 days Jesus transfer Old Testament saints from Abraham bosom to Heaven, Satan gets thrown down (Satan had the right to be there before Jesus paid the penalty) from Heaven to bottomless pit (corrupt sinful earth) to be chained (1 Peter 5:8), Jesus sits at right hand of God, 1000 year spiritual kingdom begins, gospel is preached until all of God's elects receive the Holy Spirit=wars, famines, earthquakes (Matthew 24 we are at this time period), all governments destroyed to stop people from relying on them, Satan comes out as the fake 2nd Coming of Jesus with great miracles to have all nonelects to worship him, Satan tries 2nd attempt of tower of babel=combo of all religions, God's elects get jailed or killed,
Matthew 24:29-30
King James Version
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
the Real Jesus Christ comes and everybody will see him, Jesus sends his angels to gather all God's elect (All God's elects that are in heaven and on earth) to him in the air, all nonelects hide in caves, Jesus throws out a flaming fire (a enormous scale compared to Sodom and Gomorrah's fire and brimstone) that burns out old earth and old heaven=so that all nonelects physical bodies are destroyed, Great White Throne Judgment=all nonelects get resurrected with new bodies that won't be destroyed in the lake of fire but suffer forever=Satan, his demons and all nonelects get thrown into the lake of fire (present Hell=rich man story(rich man get transferred and all nonelects in Hell get transferred to lake of fire), all of God's elects with God forever in new heaven and new earth.
Jesus didn't suffer and die for the nonelect.
armenian gospel is a false gospel.
Jesus suffered for eternity in our 3 hrs time in Hellfire. Remember God is outside of our time.
Timeline
Jesus lived perfect sinless life=Jesus knees on garden of gethsemane sweating tears of blood because Jesus knows he will have to pay the penalty for all of God's elects sins which is Hellfire=3 hrs of darkness (sign of judgment) all over the whole world, Jesus suffers the cup of the wrath of God=Jesus says "it is finished" which means paid the full eternity punishment for God's elects=After Jesus died physically, during 3 days Jesus transfer Old Testament saints from Abraham bosom to Heaven, Satan gets thrown down (Satan had the right to be there before Jesus paid the penalty) from Heaven to bottomless pit (corrupt sinful earth) to be chained (1 Peter 5:8), Jesus sits at right hand of God, 1000 year spiritual kingdom begins, gospel is preached until all of God's elects receive the Holy Spirit=wars, famines, earthquakes (Matthew 24 we are at this time period), all governments destroyed to stop people from relying on them, Satan comes out as the fake 2nd Coming of Jesus with great miracles to have all nonelects to worship him, Satan tries 2nd attempt of tower of babel=combo of all religions, God's elects get jailed or killed,
Matthew 24:29-30
King James Version
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
the Real Jesus Christ comes and everybody will see him, Jesus sends his angels to gather all God's elect (All God's elects that are in heaven and on earth) to him in the air, all nonelects hide in caves, Jesus throws out a flaming fire (a enormous scale compared to Sodom and Gomorrah's fire and brimstone) that burns out old earth and old heaven=so that all nonelects physical bodies are destroyed, Great White Throne Judgment=all nonelects get resurrected with new bodies that won't be destroyed in the lake of fire but suffer forever=Satan, his demons and all nonelects get thrown into the lake of fire (present Hell=rich man story(rich man get transferred and all nonelects in Hell get transferred to lake of fire), all of God's elects with God forever in new heaven and new earth.
Jesus didn't suffer and die for the nonelect.
armenian gospel is a false gospel.
To seek and to save that which was Lost !
Lk 19:10
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Now what was it that was Lost that Christ came to seek and to save ?
It was the Sons of God that sinned in Adam, and Jesus Christ was successful in Saving all of them.
This has been Illustrated by the parable of the Lost Son Lk 15:11-32
The Father in this Parable would be God the Father, and the Lost Son would be all the Sons of God who went astray in Adam Lk 3:38
38Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.
Adam was the embodiment and Legal Federal Head of all the Sons of God at Creation in the Physical Lives.
They were Lost in Adam through his disobedience and became alienated from the Father.
Upon their reconciliation they are said to be found as in the Parable Lk 15:24,32
24For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
The Lost Son returning to His Father is the effect of the Work of Christ done on his behalf.. Lk 15:17-20
17And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
18I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
19And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
20And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
You see, that was the objective of Christ's Death, to bring back to God His Lost Sons 1 Pet 3:18
18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
1 Pet 2:24-25
24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
25For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
The word returned here is the greek word Epistrepho and means:
to cause to return, to bring back
Thats what the Prodigal Son was experiencing when he made up his mind to return to his Fathers house.
This is the effect of Christ Death for each Son of God who sinned in Adam, they will be returned back to God, and that is what Christ came to do by His Death Lk 19:1070
10For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
If Each Son of God that was Lost in Adam does not convert as the Prodigal did in Lk 15:17-20 and it not be heard Lk 15:24
24For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
Then the Lord Jesus Christ failed in His Mission for His Father to seek and to save that which was Lost His death did not accomplish the objective !
Lk 19:10
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Now what was it that was Lost that Christ came to seek and to save ?
It was the Sons of God that sinned in Adam, and Jesus Christ was successful in Saving all of them.
This has been Illustrated by the parable of the Lost Son Lk 15:11-32
The Father in this Parable would be God the Father, and the Lost Son would be all the Sons of God who went astray in Adam Lk 3:38
38Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.
Adam was the embodiment and Legal Federal Head of all the Sons of God at Creation in the Physical Lives.
They were Lost in Adam through his disobedience and became alienated from the Father.
Upon their reconciliation they are said to be found as in the Parable Lk 15:24,32
24For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
The Lost Son returning to His Father is the effect of the Work of Christ done on his behalf.. Lk 15:17-20
17And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
18I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
19And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
20And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
You see, that was the objective of Christ's Death, to bring back to God His Lost Sons 1 Pet 3:18
18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
1 Pet 2:24-25
24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
25For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
The word returned here is the greek word Epistrepho and means:
to cause to return, to bring back
Thats what the Prodigal Son was experiencing when he made up his mind to return to his Fathers house.
This is the effect of Christ Death for each Son of God who sinned in Adam, they will be returned back to God, and that is what Christ came to do by His Death Lk 19:1070
10For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
If Each Son of God that was Lost in Adam does not convert as the Prodigal did in Lk 15:17-20 and it not be heard Lk 15:24
24For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
Then the Lord Jesus Christ failed in His Mission for His Father to seek and to save that which was Lost His death did not accomplish the objective !
To be married to another !
Christ death accomplished that all for whom He died should be married to another.
Rom 7:4
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
The believer is become dead to the Law, its condemnation, and all of its requirements as a covenant of works, do and live. Now how are believers in Christ dead to the Law ? Is it by their Faith in Christ ? No sir, its by the Body of Christ, meaning His Death and all that it accomplished for them in regards to God's Law. He kept it perfectly for them, and where they did offend, He bore the full cup of God's wrath for them, and the end design was so that they can be married to another to another, even Him that has been raised up from the dead for their Justification Rom 4:25, that they may bring forth Fruit unto God, that is perform those good works that God before hath ordained they they should walk in Eph 2:10.
Marriage is an fellowship, a Experiential Union, so all for whom Christ died, God out of Faithfulness calls them into the Fellowship of His Son 1 Cor 1:971
9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
The word unto is the preposition eis and denotes into as in entrance into, this call actually results in entering into experiential union and fellowship with Christ !
This is an accomplishment of the Death of Christ for all whom He died and rose again for their Justification.
Christ death accomplished that all for whom He died should be married to another.
Rom 7:4
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
The believer is become dead to the Law, its condemnation, and all of its requirements as a covenant of works, do and live. Now how are believers in Christ dead to the Law ? Is it by their Faith in Christ ? No sir, its by the Body of Christ, meaning His Death and all that it accomplished for them in regards to God's Law. He kept it perfectly for them, and where they did offend, He bore the full cup of God's wrath for them, and the end design was so that they can be married to another to another, even Him that has been raised up from the dead for their Justification Rom 4:25, that they may bring forth Fruit unto God, that is perform those good works that God before hath ordained they they should walk in Eph 2:10.
Marriage is an fellowship, a Experiential Union, so all for whom Christ died, God out of Faithfulness calls them into the Fellowship of His Son 1 Cor 1:971
9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
The word unto is the preposition eis and denotes into as in entrance into, this call actually results in entering into experiential union and fellowship with Christ !
This is an accomplishment of the Death of Christ for all whom He died and rose again for their Justification.
Christ's Atoning Death !
By Atonement is meant that Christ having died in the place of or in the stead of certain Chosen sinners, taking upon Himself the due and Just punishment that was due their sins, transgressions, iniquities, and offences, and for that made a sin offering, the Just for the unjust [sinners] in order that or for the purpose of bringing them to God 1 Pet 3:18
18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
Thats effecting atonement when those Christ died for, as a benefit from His Death, have it all done to them and in them, that is necessary, Spiritually, that brings them unto Faith and Fellowship with God !
Anything short of this outcome is not an atonement, and means Christ death did not succeed for those He died to bring to God. However Paul says it did succeed, because He writes, by Him [Christ] we have received Atonement Rom 5:11
11And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom we have now received the atonement
What that means is that by Christ, His Death, His accomplishment, we have been experimentally reconciled to God [become believers] Col 1:21
21And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
The greek word here for reconciled is Apokatallasso and means:
to reconcile completely
to reconcile back again72
bring back a former state of harmony
Yes, this is the Atonement Christ death alone accomplished for everyone He died for ,it brings them back into harmony and fellowship with God, like they had with God before they sinned in Adam.
By Atonement is meant that Christ having died in the place of or in the stead of certain Chosen sinners, taking upon Himself the due and Just punishment that was due their sins, transgressions, iniquities, and offences, and for that made a sin offering, the Just for the unjust [sinners] in order that or for the purpose of bringing them to God 1 Pet 3:18
18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
Thats effecting atonement when those Christ died for, as a benefit from His Death, have it all done to them and in them, that is necessary, Spiritually, that brings them unto Faith and Fellowship with God !
Anything short of this outcome is not an atonement, and means Christ death did not succeed for those He died to bring to God. However Paul says it did succeed, because He writes, by Him [Christ] we have received Atonement Rom 5:11
11And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom we have now received the atonement
What that means is that by Christ, His Death, His accomplishment, we have been experimentally reconciled to God [become believers] Col 1:21
21And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
The greek word here for reconciled is Apokatallasso and means:
to reconcile completely
to reconcile back again72
bring back a former state of harmony
Yes, this is the Atonement Christ death alone accomplished for everyone He died for ,it brings them back into harmony and fellowship with God, like they had with God before they sinned in Adam.
Christ's Atoning Death !
You see sin resulted in alienation and hostility in our minds as is pointed out here Col 1:21
21And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
Let me say something here. This verse is not only describing the fornicators, drunkards, drug attics in the world, but also the very religious people, the very moral people, people who live decently and honestly before men, but they just don't have the True Christ.
Also Eph 2:1-3
1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Notice Paul said that he also walked in the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and the mind, now paul I do not believe was a fornicator, a thief or a drunkard, but this is what characterized previous lifestyle Phil 3:4-6
4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Paul was I believe a very pious and religious man, perhaps from his youth.
But when he was saved, he looks back at that lifestyle just described in Phil 3 as one of being "fulfilling the desires of the flesh and the mind".
Eph 4:17-18
17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
However, the reconciliation and atoning benefits of Christ's death, the Holy Spirit working in conjunction with it, working in them that Christ died for, works so in them to present them Holy and Blameless before God, in the Day of Christ. Col 1:21-22
21And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
22In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
Phil 1:6
6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
So the commencing of the good work in us , reconciling us to God subjectively, is what Paul means by us receiving the Atonement, we have received of its mighty effects, it begins a work in us by God the Holy Spirit, that actively brings back to God, Thats the Atonement that Christ's provides for everyone he died for, God's Elect. 73
You see sin resulted in alienation and hostility in our minds as is pointed out here Col 1:21
21And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
Let me say something here. This verse is not only describing the fornicators, drunkards, drug attics in the world, but also the very religious people, the very moral people, people who live decently and honestly before men, but they just don't have the True Christ.
Also Eph 2:1-3
1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Notice Paul said that he also walked in the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and the mind, now paul I do not believe was a fornicator, a thief or a drunkard, but this is what characterized previous lifestyle Phil 3:4-6
4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Paul was I believe a very pious and religious man, perhaps from his youth.
But when he was saved, he looks back at that lifestyle just described in Phil 3 as one of being "fulfilling the desires of the flesh and the mind".
Eph 4:17-18
17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
However, the reconciliation and atoning benefits of Christ's death, the Holy Spirit working in conjunction with it, working in them that Christ died for, works so in them to present them Holy and Blameless before God, in the Day of Christ. Col 1:21-22
21And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
22In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
Phil 1:6
6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
So the commencing of the good work in us , reconciling us to God subjectively, is what Paul means by us receiving the Atonement, we have received of its mighty effects, it begins a work in us by God the Holy Spirit, that actively brings back to God, Thats the Atonement that Christ's provides for everyone he died for, God's Elect. 73
Here we go again ... [click] 
Would to God your points were "according to scripture" as opposed to according to limited atonement / replacement theology ...
John 3:15-18 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him ...
John 3:15-18 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him ...