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H. Orton Wiley on the Universal Scope of the Atonement

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H. Orton Wiley on the Universal Scope of the Atonement

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The following is taken from Dr. H. Orton Wiley’s book Introduction to Christian Theology (pp. 234-235):

The atonement is universal. This does not mean that all mankind will be unconditionally saved, but that the sacrifice offering of Christ so far satisfied the claims of the divine law as to make salvation a possibility for all. Redemption is therefore universal or general in the provisional sense, but special or conditional in its application to the individual.

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