This is the difference, then: the Arminian says all sins committed by all men are nailed to the cross of Calvary and borne in His body on the tree. The Reformed says if this is so then they cannot be borne by anyone else at any time. It is not a matter of Christ “potentially” bearing sin: either He bore it or He didn’t. If He did, those sins are forgiven. The fact that the elect will only come to know of this great benefit when God, by His grace, regenerates them, brings them out of darkness and into His light, and gives them the knowledge of what Christ did for them long before they were
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