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Since Christ atoned for ALL sins for those whom He died for, there is nothing..... NOTHING to warrant further punishment
There is if Christ's atonement is not accepted. To reject substitutionary propitiation is to put oneself under law, and all under law are condemned, except Christ.
1. IF there is an exception, as you seem to suggest, then Christ did NOT atone for ALL sins, which leaves the sinner with something that must be atoned for by some other means. The result is, of course, that salvation is impossible since even the slightest infraction of the law incurs eternal punishment.

2. As has been explained on several occasions here, Christ's atonement was SUBSTITUTIONARY and totally SUFFICIENT for those for whom He died. Put simply in non-theological terms, salvation from beginning to end was SECURED in full and infallibly so for those whom Christ died. ALL that is necessary for salvation; regeneration, justification, sanctification and glorification, is included in His vicarious, substitutionary atonement. When it is applied, the recipient infallibly repents and believes upon Christ and is preserved by grace to the end.

Christ put it quite simply when He said,


John 6:37-39 (ASV) "All that which the Father giveth me shall come unto me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. For I am come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the will of him that sent me, that of all that which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day."


So, what part of this unassailable biblical truth do you not understand?

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