An Exegetical Study of Titus 2:11

Calling and Repentance

Myth of Free-Will

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Hunt says that Calvinism limits God’s saving grace to a select few, leaving the majority of mankind without hope or possibility of salvation (p. 78). The offer of salvation is extended only to the elect (p. 103). The truth is, Calvinists believe that God’s saving grace is freely offered to the whole world, and that there will be an innumerable company in heaven from every tribe on earth, purchased by Jesus’ blood (Rev. 5:9-12).
Hunt’s god doesn’t hunt. He limits God’s power to ALL. He states Christ died for everyman, but also that God’s grace is not powerful enough (efficacious) to all to whom it is given. In other words, Christ actually accomplished nothing on the Cross—but only made possibilities. But what does the Scripture say?

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1. Christ died to deliver believers from this evil age, as God had willed (Gal 1:4)
2. Christ died to redeem and purify believers (Tit 2:14)
3. Christ died to sanctify and cleanse the church (Eph 5:25-27)
4. Christ died to actually remove God's wrath (Rom 3:25)
5. Christ's death doesn't make it possible for us to be reconciled to God, but actually does reconcile us to God (Rom 5:10)
6. Christ actually obtained eternal redemption by His death (Heb 9:12)
7. Christ's death actually secured redemption (Eph 1:7)

The Scriptures utterly oppose the teaching that Christ only died to make it possible to save us, but did not die to actually secure the salvation of anyone. Luke 19:10 tells us that Christ did not come to merely make salvation possible, but actually came "to seek and to save that which was lost." Christ did not come into the world to make all humans able to be saved, but came into the world to actually save people: "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners" (1 Tim 1:15).

Hunt merely presents a salvation that is a possibility, however Jesus does more than merely offer salvation, He makes it a definitive reality for His own. Hunt makes man the god of his own salvation. Who is the God of your salvation, you or God? Though there will be “an innumerable company in heaven from every tribe on earth, purchased by Jesus’ blood (Rev. 5:9-12),” it will be of God’s doing and not ours.

Reformed and Always Reforming,