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That's not what people who have heard the gospel do, though. They know that their debt has been paid, but they refuse to admit that they owed it. But they cannot live with that, because it is a lie, and that is why they are eternally condemned by their own consciences.
Methinks that there is yet another error concerning a fundamental issue; the Gospel. There is nothing in the Gospel which indiscriminately declares that any particular individual's debt has been paid. What the biblical Gospel declares is that Christ has died for sinners and all who come to Him in repentance and faith will have their sins remitted. Again, Christ did NOT die for all men without exception else all men would be infallibly saved.

If a person refuses to admit that they stand guilty before God because they are worthless sinners, that they are at enmity with God and He with them, that God's wrath is upon them and unless they are justified in Christ they are worthy of condemnation, etc., then they obviously are not regenerate and at least at that moment have no interest in that redemption that Christ accomplished on the cross.

Being eternally condemned by their own consciences is a far cry from the condemnation the Scriptures teach. Those outside of Christ are liable to everlasting torment and will spend eternity in hell. The Positive and Explicit Nature of Christ’s Teaching Concerning Eternal Punishment

In His grace,

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