The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Atonement insufficient?

OK, let's consider John 3:16. The Adam's fall affected more than just mankind. The outer nature associated with the created universe was also totally corrupted by original sin. God could have destroyed all of His creation. But God continued to love the world whose underlying substance remained perfect. Instead, God gave His Son to save the created world corrupted by sin. And God ordained that,by the purchase of His Son, whosoever, of Adam's race, believes would receive eternal life.

Instead, God gave His Son to save the created world corrupted by sin.

And God ordained that,by the purchase of His Son, whosoever, of Adam's race, believes would receive eternal life.

Joh 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. (KJV)

John Gill
which I will give for the life of the world; and which he did by the offering up of his body, and making his soul, or giving himself an offering, a propitiatory sacrifice for sin; which was done in the most free and voluntary manner, in the room and stead of his people, to procure eternal life for them, even for the whole world of his elect; whether among Jews or Gentiles; particularly the latter are here meant, in opposition to a notion of the Jews, that the world, or the Gentiles, would receive no benefit by the Messiah when he came; See Gill on Joh_3:16.

No, He saved the world by taking away the sins of the world.