Originally Posted by Tom
Pilgrim
What you appear to be saying here (at least to me) is that DeYoung believes in Penal Substitutional Atonement which you believe is not biblical.
That is where my confusion is.
You seem to want me to critique a position that I agree with.
Tom
1. I am saying no such thing!!! nono I hold tenaciously that Christ's atonement was penal, vicarious and substitutionary in nature. In short, as you should well know, my view of the atonement is 100% in agreement with all of the Reformed Confessions and that taught by Calvin, Edwards, Owen, etc. etc. etc........

2. Have you actually read anything other than that short section on the atonement which Kevin DeYoung has written? scratchchin Do you recall that I once posted as a poll question on this board a statement of man's depravity which I asked members to vote whether they thought it was biblical or not? On its face, it appeared to be solid and orthodox. After the poll closed I then revealed that it was written by the Remonstrants in 1617 which was submitted to the Synod of Dort. When all of their statements were taken as a whole what they wrote was heretical because what they meant in their statement on depravity was not what it could be understood to mean from the words used. [HINT]


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