Does Reformed Theology Suffer from the Problem that Christs Sacrifice was Insufficient to Save Everyone?
Visitor: Reformed theology suffers from the problem that Christ’s sacrifice was insufficient to save everyone. Christ was unable to fulfill the Father’s will that all men shall be saved, so thus God decided not to “will” certain people to be saved. Maybe that’s one of “[His] reasons for choosing some and not others…” Response: Interesting charge. Before I answer it you may want to consider that synergistic theology suffers from the problem that Christ’s sacrifice was insufficient to save ANYONE. It loves many people with a general, ineffectual love, but loves no one in particular. Furthermore synergism limits the sins which Christ dies for. Just to show that this is no straw man, let me give you two examples: The synergist believes that Christ does not die for any person for 1) the sin of unbelief or 2) their moral failure to persevere. So then, we ask, is His work on the cross not powerful enough to cover all sins? So he dies for only some of our sins and we have to make up for the
