Originally Posted by evangelist
It is the acknowledgement of what Christ done for us which saves us.
That is why those who don't believe are condemned already:
M'r:16:16: He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

Jesus has no respect of person, so hHe died for all, we just have to accept what Christ did for us that is the good news of the gospel out of love.
nope Acknowledgement of what Christ accomplished on the cross, which you reject as being an actual salvation for those whom He died, cannot and does not save! Salvation is by GRACE through FAITH in the Lord Jesus Christ. It is an embracing of the PERSON of Jesus Christ believing that He alone is sufficient to save. To believe: "Christ died for me." is that which a believer confesses as a matter of assurance (cf. Gal 2:20) and not justification.

It is vain to try and use, "God is no respecter of persons" as a defense for Universalism. If God was truly no respecter of persons and Christ died for all, then God would save all. God does not respect anyone in regard to salvation, i.e., God does not find anything about nor within any man, woman or child that commends them to Him and upon which He determines whom shall be saved. However, God is incontrovertibly discriminate since it is His free choice whom He shall save by His infinite mercy and grace.

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Deuteronomy 7:7-8 (ASV) "Jehovah did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all peoples: but because Jehovah loveth you, and because he would keep the oath which he sware unto your fathers, hath Jehovah brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt."

Romans 9:11-24 (ASV) "for [the children] being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth, it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated. What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath mercy. For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, For this very purpose did I raise thee up, that I might show in thee my power, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth. So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will be hardeneth. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he still find fault? For who withstandeth his will? Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus? Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor? What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction: and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he afore prepared unto glory, [even] us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?"
In His grace,

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