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Originally Posted by toddpedlar  Can you be a little more direct? What in your view is the essence of the misrepresentation of Dort with respect to particular redemption? |
Sure. Most of the early reformed tradition, and indeed Dort, did see a universal end
as well as a particular end in the atonement. This is, at least, what somone like Richard Muller would seem to affirm (so
here). Moreover, the school of Saumur (in Muller's eyes) fits in with Dort (so
here).
This universal end (alongside of the particular end) in the atonement was affirmed to make sense of the classic universal texts (esp. 1 John 2:2).
The issue of "limited atonement" is a little more subtle than just the standard statement "Christ died for the elect".
God bless Todd.