Was the Atonement Limited to Only the Elect?

<p>The guys continue to work their way through the 5 points of Calvinism with a discussion on "Limited Atonement".</p> <p><br></p> <p>John Calvin on the Scope of the Atonement (notes from this episode)</p> <p>"[T]hough Christ suffered for the sins of the whole world, and is offered through God’s benignity indiscriminately to all, yet all do not receive him."(<em>Commentaries on the Epistles to Timothy, Titus, and Philemon</em>, Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software. p. 59)</p> <p>"[I]t is the will of God that we should seek the salvation of all men without exception, as Christ suffered for the sins of the whole world."(<em>Commentaries on the Epistles of Paul to the Galatians and Ephesians</em>, Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software. p. 157)</p> <p>"It is also a fact, without controversy, that Christ came to atone for the sins of the whole world." (Calvin, J. &amp; Cole, H.H., 1856. <em>Calvin’s Calvinism: A Treatise on the Eternal Predestination of God</em>, London: Wertheim and Macintosh. p. 150)</p> <p>"It was God who appointed his Son to be the Propitiator, and who determined that the sins of the world should he expiated by his deatH."(<em>Commentary on the Gospel according to John</em>, Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software. Vol. 2, p. 106)</p> <p>"Behold the Turks which cast away the grace which was purchased for all the world by Jesus Christ: the Jews do the like: the Papists, although they say not so openly, they show it in effect. . . . And thus we see now, how men are not partakers of this benefit, which was purchased them by our Lord Jesus Christ" (S<em>ermons of M. John Calvin, on the Epistles of S. Paule to Timothie and Titus.</em>&nbsp;Carlisle: Banner of Truth, p. 177)</p> <p>"For it is no small matter to have the souls perish which were bought by the blood of Christ" (S<em>ermons of M. John Calvin, on the Epistles of S. Paule to Timothie and Titus.</em>&nbsp;Carlisle: Banner of Truth, p. 817)</p> <p>"Because to see souls created in the image of God move toward their own damnation is hardly a light ma