A brief exchange I had on Facebook
Everett
There is no one saved if calvinism were true. You have to be in danger of something to be saved. No one headed to heaven was ever in danger of not being in heaven. It literally cancels out the gospel.
Hays
It's easy to reframe the issue counterfactually. They'd be in danger if they were not elect. To take a comparison, a swimmer would be in danger of drowning if there was no lifeguard on duty.
"No one headed to heaven was ever in danger of not being in heaven."
ReplyDeleteIf Jesus had to die to get them to heaven, then the danger of them going was real.
The God who ordained the ends has also ordained the means of the salvation of the elect.
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