You didn't repent means you reject the offer. God is just to put u in hell.
So again, you make salvation based on your action, not God's sovereign will.
Also, you still didn't address the issue of two people paying for one person's sin as that relates to Divine justice. You make God the Father unjust to the Son, because Jesus suffered in vain for people He atoned for who don't become redeemed.
There are ppl who Christ died for but unsaved
Look closely at the verse you quoted. (Also note the difference between the wording of the ESV and the KJV. King Jimmy is a little clearer in conveying the meaning.)
ESV
12 While I was with them, I kept them in your name,
which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
"....
which You have given me..." What did the Father give Christ? Both Christ and the Father (and Sprit) are eternally existent, so the Father didn't give Christ "His name" (Christ's or the Father's name). None had been lost (that the Father had "given" Christ to redeem); "but the son of perdition that Scripture might be fulfilled."
Now look at the King James. The order of the wording certainly makes it clear that Judas was not atoned for.
KJV
12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name:
those that thou gave me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
Those that You gave me I've kept and none of them is lost. but (on the other hand) the son of perdition (is lost) that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
This passage doesn't imply; (as you wish it did) that the son of perdition was actually atoned for. He wasn't. Jesus did not pay for Judas's sin.
Next; notice when Jesus actually says this. This is the night before Passover. This is before Judas had died. How did Jesus "know" Judas "wasn't going to repent"?
Yet, when you look at it in the human aspect of the event; Judas did "repent". He brought the money back and said he'd betrayed an innocent man. Judas had legitimately felt bad about what he'd done. (Bad enough to hang himself for it.) Also his behavior changed; he did bring the money back.
But that's not God's definition of repentance. "Godly sorrow works repentance unto salvation; but the sorrow of this world works death." 2 Corinthians 7:10
Judas is the perfect example here of "worldly sorrow". His behavior did demonstrate legitimate feelings of guilt; but that didn't work "repentance unto salvation".
Which this forces anyone who's serious about redemption to consider what exactly is "repentance unto salvation". Obviously it means the type of repentance that produces salvation. Well, what type of repentance is that? I'm sure there is a lot that can be said in what that constitutes; but I'm pretty sure it involves a certain understanding that God doesn't owe you anything; even if you are sorry for the wrong that you've done. You don't deserve grace. None of us do.
God offer grace but some rejected it.
And if it weren't for God's intervention upon the lives of some; all would reject it. That's what Roman's 3 is talking about. No one wants grace and unless God wakes a person up; they don't even know what it really is! And if they are truly woke; of course they want it, because they know they don't deserve it and are thoroughly convinced of what will happen to them if they don't get grace.
Being on the receiving end of grace produces a type of trepidation within the awareness of the believer, because they full-well know and understand what they do deserve. Of course they are joyful for receiving grace; yet that joy is tempered by an understanding that not only do they not deserve to be atoned for; their personal redemption cost Jesus an awful lot.
No, one have to be believed in order to be saved. universal atonement doesn't deny predestination.
Universal atonement is unjust and particularly to Christ; because that's to say Christ still suffered for those who don't become saved. No matter how you slice it; that still makes God unjust.
Which if God is unjust; why would you believe anyone is redeemed? If God can condemn His own Son (the only person who never sinned) and arbitrarily determine that one person's form of repentance is sufficient when another's is not; how do you know that your repentance is sufficient?
Look at Judas; according to all worldly standards he repented; yet it wasn't "repentance unto salvation". So... how do
you know who has "repentance unto salvation" and who doesn't? (My answer to that question is: "He who has repentance unto salvation, is the one God elected from before time even began, atoned for their sin and brought about both their ability to believe, as well as to produce repentance unto salvation." In other words; salvation is all of God and none of us. We only rightly respond to it; (which is made manifest by both what we do, as well as what we believe about redemption).
Lutheran hold universal atomenet yet believe in the original sin and God's monergistic salvation.
LOL - Then how do Lutherans reconcile Monergism with universal atonement?
I agree that regeneration initiates without human cooperation. The spiritual awakening incites the human will to cooperation for recognition, as well as conviction of the need for redemption.
Yet if universal atonement were true; you'd have to explain why either (or both) that regeneration doesn't produce faith and repentance in some people; or why there are those Christ has atoned for, that the Holy Ghost doesn't regenerate?
If you don't have electricity; you're either not connected to the network, or there's a break somewhere in the network. To say human beings can "blow a transformer" in the Redemption network; is to say either God isn't sovereign (can't fix it) or He just doesn't care (won't fix it).
Predestination on the other hand; declares that simply not everyone is "connected to the network". Matter of fact; most aren't.
Matthew 7:
13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
