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effectually "the atoning sacrifice for OUR sins and not for OUR sins only but for the sins of the WHOLE WORLD" 1 John 2:2
SDAs are not universalists and we don't down-size bend-wrench 1 John 2:2 to not say that Christ is "the atoning sacrifice for OUR sins and not for OUR sins only but for the sins of the WHOLE WORLD".
So then we don't claim as some others do "World does not mean world and whole world does not mean whole world and is does not mean is ...". Instead of breaking the text in those sorts of ways -- SDAs simply accept that God Himself informs us about the "full definition" of Atonement in Lev 16 where it requires BOTH the "Atoning Sacrifice" of the lamb of God slain, Christ as the Lamb of God AND IT ALSO requires the work of Christ in heaven as High priest.
No wonder then that Paul says "THE MAIN POINT is this we have a High Priest seated at the right hand of the Father" Heb 8:1 when he talks about the Gospel , New Covenant.
Put simply - we don't play the games found so often in Calvinism
effectually "the atoning sacrifice for OUR sins and not for OUR sins only but for the sins of the WHOLE WORLD" 1 John 2:2
I did not know there were SDA who were Universalists.
SDAs are not universalists and we don't down-size bend-wrench 1 John 2:2 to not say that Christ is "the atoning sacrifice for OUR sins and not for OUR sins only but for the sins of the WHOLE WORLD".
So then we don't claim as some others do "World does not mean world and whole world does not mean whole world and is does not mean is ...". Instead of breaking the text in those sorts of ways -- SDAs simply accept that God Himself informs us about the "full definition" of Atonement in Lev 16 where it requires BOTH the "Atoning Sacrifice" of the lamb of God slain, Christ as the Lamb of God AND IT ALSO requires the work of Christ in heaven as High priest.
No wonder then that Paul says "THE MAIN POINT is this we have a High Priest seated at the right hand of the Father" Heb 8:1 when he talks about the Gospel , New Covenant.
Put simply - we don't play the games found so often in Calvinism
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