Romans 5:10: Actual Atonement

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Preaching Reconciliation !

Something to know about legal and objective reconciliation of the Elect, and that is this, that all the Elect while being enemies to Christ and God, are nevertheless legally still reconciled, received into God's Favor up until they are born again by the Spirit, or saved by Christ's Life Rom 5:10b. This means, but I do not teach it from scripture, but it does mean if an elect person were to die before new birth, that they would still be saved from the penalty of their sins, by the blood of Christ, that they would die objectively and legally reconciled into God's Favor by Christ's Death alone ! All of the sin and enmity the Elect by Nature have against God, while they are yet unconverted , and alienated from the life of God, and yes unbelievers, all that has been satisfied for by the blood of Christ ! In fact legal and objective reconciliation by Christ's Death Alone is that Propitiation John writes of in 1 Jn 2:2 !

2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

Propitiation:

akin to hileos ("merciful, propitious"), signifies "an expiation, a means whereby sin is covered and remitted."

The whole world of 1 Jn 2:2 is a world that has all of its sins remitted or covered. Like David said about the blessed Man Ps 32:1

Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven or remitted, whose sin is covered.

That's the blessing of Legal Reconciliation/ Propitiation !

 

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The Propitiated World is a Justified World

Those who unwisely appeal to 1 John 2:2 to argue that Christ died for every single human being without exception do not understand the legal definition of the words they are using. If you teach a universal propitiation, you are textually forced to teach absolute universalism.


Look at how Jesus Himself connects propitiation directly to justification in the account of the publican in Luke 18:13–14:

“And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful [hilaskomai] to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified [dikaioō] rather than the other...”

The word for "merciful" here is the Greek verb hilaskomai, which means to render propitious, to appease, to conciliate, or to make propitiation for.
The noun form of this exact verbal root is what John uses in 1 John 2:2: hilasmos, meaning the actual means of appeasing or a completed propitiation.

Notice the immediate judicial sequence that Jesus establishes: The moment a sinner has God propitiated (hilaskomai) toward him, that sinner goes down to his house justified (dikaioō). God’s wrath is appeased, Justice is satisfied, and a formal judicial decree of “Not Guilty—Righteous” is pronounced.

This creates an inescapable dilemma for the universal atonement advocate:

If Christ is the hilasmos (propitiation) for every individual human being who has ever lived, then every individual human being has had God's wrath perfectly appeased toward them. And according to Jesus’ own words, every single one of them must be justified.

If you argue for a universal atonement in 1 John 2:2, you are forced to conclude that the entire world without exception has been declared legally righteous before God and cannot go to hell. Since Scripture rejects universalism, it textually destroys universal atonement. The "whole world" in 1 John 2:2 is the world of the elect—the only world for whom Christ successfully appeased divine Justice and legally secured a verdict of justification! 2

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