Common Error (Pt. 2)

Post 1 may be read here, and I highly recommend reading it before this post.

First, these ideas (Common grace and unlimited atonement, Spurgeon said 'Common grace' Driscoll has re-termed it 'unlimited limited atonement') are really one in the same, though separated by a 100 years. Within which we are told that Christ purchased saving grace for those that believe and the right to breath and feel everything in the first paragraph of post 1 for both believer and unbeliever alike.

However the issue with this is seen in various ways and in various places. For in Romans 3:25-26 we see God passing over the sins of believers by looking to the cross for their redemption. “In his divine forbearance he passed over former sin,” to show his righteousness. He looks to the cross where the believer is judged and justified thus his wrath is propitiated.

Therefore why should not God look similarly to the judgment of unbelievers?

Additionally, we see Jesus often speaking of the purchasing of grace for his sheep that come at the call of his voice (i.e. John 17), but he does not speak of buying common grace for the lost rather he speaks more about hell than any one prophet in all of the Bible. Finally, Romans 1 comes into play very heavily in its three mentions of God giving people up to the passions, lust and/or desires of the flesh (Romans 1:24,26,28). That they have been divinely handed over to sin and will taste the unbridled undiluted cup of God's wrath.

It is thus not simply reasonable but also congruent to say that there is no common grace or unlimited atonement for it is not clearly spoken of in Scripture. Also to see that throughout the entirety of Scripture God is on a clear mission for his own glory but to see the grace which he affords all used for various kinds of sin with no remorse by those that are lost is a travesty of justice which is unthinkable and a robbery of his glory. Therefore to see that God is storing up his holy wrath for the Final Judgment as opposed to lavishing grace only to damn later is a reasonable thing.