How about asking a question that makes sense? They were given the chance during thier lives. What do you not understand about this?
God isn't locked in time. His sacrifice isn't limited to future generations, as I already have shown through scripture. If Abraham and Abel and many others were saved by grace, why are you excluding anyone before the incarnation from receiving atonement?
Yes, just as I thought. Dismissing my question as a question that makes no sense. I knew you could not give a sound answer to that. And it sure does not make any sense to you and those who believe that Jesus made atonement for Adam, Eve, Cain, those whom God condemned and destroyed until the generation of Noah, those whom God condemned and destroyed in the flood in Noah's time, the Egyptian firstborns whom God killed in the Exodus, Pharaoh and his men whom God destroyed, the idolatrous children of Israel whom God killed in wilderness, those whom God killed in the taking of the land of Canaan, the false prophets, Judas, and all the pagans and sinners who had lived and died before the cross, whom God had given up to uncleanness, to vile passions, and to a debased mind. And the reason given why you believe such, is not that, scriptures says so, but that you simply believe that Jesus' atonement was, is, and will be, an offer to all men, dead or alive, which they either accept or not, which of course likewise makes no sense. Dead unsaved people at the time of the atonement just could not respond to such an offer. Besides, Jesus did not offer Himself to each and every human being, more so to dead people, for them to accept and make Him their sacrifice of atonement to be reconciled to God. Dead unsaved people at the time of Jesus' atonement, were awaiting judgment and atonement is of no matter. For it is appointed for men to die once, and after that, the judgment.
You asked your sensible question(?) "
If Abraham and Abel and many others were saved by grace, why are you excluding anyone before the incarnation from receiving atonement?". While people like Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob were said to be saved, their salvation is not without the finished work of Jesus Christ, even without them knowing it. And those who were condemned, were condemned not that they rejected Jesus or Jesus' sacrifice of atonement, but because of their rejection and rebellion against God, their unbelief and lack of faith, their idolatry, their sin. Jesus Christ indeed made atonement for the sins of the saved dead like Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, but obviously not for the sins of the unsaved dead like Cain, who rejected and rebelled against God.
Tong
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