Dear Brothers in Christ,

For some reason in my FB, I have been receiving feed from a group called

Reformed Life of which I never signed up for.

This happened for a couple of months, it would have been one of my FB

friends who probably did this without informing me.

At any rate,the admin of the group recently posted on how Limited

Atonement is true. Their main Scripture is Mt 1:21, John 10:15. He

asserted that the reason why there are people in hell today is because

Jesus never died for them. Because if Jesus died for them, then they

should have faith too. That should raise the flag because they are there

without regard to faith or no faith, so faith does not come into play in

the person's destiny. So indeed I raised back 2 John 2:1-2 and 2 Cor

5:17.

Of course none of his Scripture directly address explicitly the

assertion that Jesus died only for some people. So this is the same as

UOJ - rationalism and faulty assumption and thus deduction from man's

reasoning but no explicit verse from Scripture. For example Mt 1:21,

save is used not pay, or die.

So having given Scripture to say the opposite of what he asserted, which

are direct and explicit Scriptures that counter his theory I then

asserted this the 4th and 5th line from the Nicene Creed Who for us men,

and for our salvation [1], came down and was incarnate [2] and was made

man; He suffered [3], and the third day he rose again [4], ascended into

heaven;

I charged him that his theory has never been believed by the ancient

Church.

He countered that his belief has always been believed by the ancient

Church and I said, that confession has never been codified instead the

reverse is codified in the Nicene Creed - I charged you are not even

"catholic" (small c), and should bother you.

He then boldly countered that he does not care about the Nicene Creed

since it is not Scripture and he did not care if he was not compliant to

such creeds.

Then he banned me so he continued to preach to his choir and I could not

reply and reason with him.

I am sharing this with you because if a belief is not compliant to the

symbols of the ancient Church that should give us pause and cause

trouble in our hearts.

This Calvinist I encountered was not ashamed to say - he rejects the

1700 year old creed 325 AD agreed by early Christians of long ago. What

amazed me a bit is the boldness of him to declare he is not compliant -

he rejects these creeds.

If someone is a Calvinist, having such teaching or confession, then

there is an issue which is far more fundamental with not only with

Lutherans but with the rest of Christendom all over the world and all

ages.