Meditations

Open line program on Aug 26, 2023 hour 1

Question:

Tricia Mcmillan:

Our first question is from Instagram, we are on instagram, we are openline radio is our handle on instagram but Steve wants to know if the Messiah died for everyone or only for the elect?

Answer from Dr Michael Rydelnik: @33mins

https://www.moodyradio.org/radioplayer.aspx?episode=545516&hour=1

Summary:

Dr Michael Rydelnik is of the opinion that the Messiah’s death is sufficient for the whole world if the whole world comes to faith but is efficient only for the elect.

Michael Rydelnik says that 2 Peter 2:1 teaches that Jesus indeed died for the whole world when the verse says that Jesus also died for the false teachers but only if they would have believed. False teachers in the bible are always those who have never believed.

Calvinist believes in the theology of limited atonement where the Messiah only died for the elect.

Scripture:

John 3

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. -nkjv

2 Peter

 1But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. -nkjv

Romans 5

⁸ But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. -nkjv

Ephesians 5
²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, -nkjv

1 John 2

² And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. -nkjv