The Atonement: What did it REALLY Accomplish?

Christs death is limited to them who by His Death took away their sins.

Nobody Christ died for can die in their sins in unbelief, all that has been taken away by His death for them

The will cannot escape the moral character out of which it comes. If the soul is entirely corrupt so that its knowledge and desire are defective and rotten, it follows that it will ever will to do that which is evil.

God, please let Christ's atonement cleanse your people, and give each a new heart! Only then, are we enabled us to please you in any way! Now that is indeed GRACE!

He fulfilled all Righteousness for His People the Church !

Matt 3:15

15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.

I believe this includes the fulfilling of the Righteousness of the Law Rom 8:4

4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Christ's coming to the earth was also in regard to keeping the Law, Honoring it as it should have been Isa 42:21

21 The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.

He magnified it by keeping it for His People the Church, Christ as Adam did, did a Representative Work, He lived and died in the behalf of Gods People, those who also had a Representative Union with Him from before the foundation Eph 1:4

4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

Christ for this Representative Work had all the fruits and graces of the Spirit Isa 11:1-5

And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:

2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;

3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:

4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

He was given the Spirit without measure Jn 3:34

For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.

Hence Christ as the Representative Surety of His People while living on Earth doing the Will of God for them Heb 10:7,9

He did for them perform all the Faith and Love to God and His Neighbor as required by the Law, Like when Jesus said to one who questioned Him here:

Matt 22:35-40

35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,

36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

38 This is the first and great commandment.

39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

He has fully for His Church fulfilled The First and Great Commandment of the Law In Vs 37-38 and the second like unto it in Vs 39, So True Believers claim the Faith of Christ as theirs, not their own faith, but that Faith Christ exercised towards God while He was here living as the Surety Representative of His People, fulfilling all Righteousness ! 47

... in conflating what is written in Matthew 3:15 with what is written in Romans 8:4 ... you reveal you do not understand what is written in Matthew 3 nor do you understand what is written in Romans 8.

Here is what you do with Scripture, brightfame52 ...

you take a verse (or verses) from one book ...

and a verse (or verses) from completely different books because a similar word or words are used in the verses ...

you then re-write what the Author of Scripture has laid out in the sections from which you lift verses …

and that is not proper interpretation of Scripture ... that is not rightly dividing the Word of truth (2 Tim 2:15).

Do you read books authored by men and/or women in the same manner you read Scripture? …

or do you read what is written by men and women without manipulating the text? …

thereby holding the writing of men in higher esteem than what is written by the Author of Scripture.

It is truly shameful that you handle the Word of God in this manner.

brightfame52 said:

True Believers claim the Faith of Christ as theirs, not their own faith, but that Faith Christ exercised towards God

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True believers believe what is written in Scripture. According to Scripture, there is only one faith:

Ephesians 4:

4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

You again re-write Scripture to conform to your erroneous dogma.

Your re-writing of Scripture does not change the truth of Scripture one bit ... your re-writing of Scripture causes you to pile error upon error ...


READ YOUR BIBLE!!!
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Christs death is limited to His Church. If you teach a Christ that died for all humanity, its another jesus

Nobody Christ died for shall be lost. Only the reprobate He didnt die for

It's the Church

Yes Christ only loved and gave Himself for His Church Eph 5:25 ff and the consequences are:

26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

Brings Fruit unto God !

One of the things Jesus atoning death was purposed to do and does do, it brings fruit unto God. Jesus said on one occasion Jn 12:24

24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

And Paul writes Rom 7:4

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ[His death for you]; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

Christ brings forth fruit when those He died for, according to the Will of God bring forth fruit, that was the purpose of His death, without the fruit, it was all in vain.

Christ death accomplished a twofold purpose, that those He died for should be #1 Married to another, because by His death for them they become dead to the Law, in order that they would be married to Christ. How did they become dead to the Law according to the text in Rom 7:4 ?

By the Body of Christ is how, which simply means by His death. Did you know that everyone Christ died for, are born into this world dead to the Law ? Not under its condemning power ! All other men are born condemned by the Law, those Christ did not die for, for instance those in Jn 3:18 cannot and do not believe because they are condemned by the Law, already condemned , their unbelief is evidence of their being already condemned !

But again, not so for those Christ died, because by His death or by the Body of Christ they become dead to the law ! 47

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Yes His Love and Death was exclusivley for His Church Eph 5:25 just as a Mans Love should be exclusively for His Wife, they are One Flesh,

Eph 5:25-32


25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

... since, according to you, the Lord Jesus Christ loved and died "exclusivley for His Church" ... and

we know from Matthew 16:18 that the Lord Jesus Christ stated the church was yet future:


then what you are saying is that the Lord Jesus Christ did not love ... nor did He die ... for all those who lived before He established the church which He said was yet future ...

you exclude folks we read about in Hebrews 11 ... and we know Hebrews 11 is not an all-inclusive list of people who were of good report (Heb 11:2).


brightfame52, you have again failed in your futile attempt to align Scripture to your erroneous dogma.

You are to align your dogma to Scripture and where you are in error, let go of the error.


READ YOUR BIBLE!!!
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Yes His Love and Death was exclusively for His Church Eph 5:25