Alex and Macon talk through the incredible grace shown to us in Christ’s atonement all the while being really, truly, and actually Human, including getting surprised at the well.

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Atonement

On Universal Atonement but not Universal Salvation, this Editor’s footnote (p189, Atonement) does a great job of summarizing TFT on how he thinks through unlimited atonement.

“For Torrance, the apprehension of the cross involves a conversion of the reason in which we bow our own reason before the reality and mystery of Christ and seek to understand it (as far as we may) out of itself without reducing it to logical schemata of our own making which inevitably break it up into separate elements and distort it. We need to hold together what scripture holds together, refusing to categorize it in ways that distort that wholeness. If we cannot understand how scripture holds together certain things which we find difficult (such as the unconditional love and forgiveness of God for all, the finished work of Christ, the gospel imperative to repent and believe, and the fact that some refuse and are judged by the very gospel that offers them life) then it is not open to us to resolve the tension through a man-made logical schema, which emphasizes some elements at the expense of others. We need to be crucified with Christ in our natural reason and through the transforming of our mind begin to penetrate into ‘the interior logic of scripture’ so that we may learn to think as scripture thinks and hold together what it holds together in Christ. Both universalism and limited atonement for Torrance fail to do that.”

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