Mistake About God

I believe that it is a mistake about God Himself, which has been the root and foundation of all the mistakes in theology. My conviction is that Arminian theology, to a great extent, makes God to be less than He is.  The basis and groundwork of Arminian theology lies in attaching undue importance to man and giving God the secondary place.

I do not believe in an atonement which is admirably wide, but fatally ineffectual. I had rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all for whom it was intended than a universal atonement that is not efficacious for anybody, except the will of man be joined with it.

Again, to think that my Savior died for those who were or are in Hell, seems a supposition too horrible for me to entertain. To imagine for a moment that He was the Substitute for all people; and that God, having first punished the Substitute, afterwards punished the sinners themselves conflicts with all ideas of divine justice.

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[Charles H. Spurgeon]


Isaiah 53:4-5 … Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.


Romans 5:11 … And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.


Hebrews 10:10 … By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.❤