Some Free Will persons promote Universal Atonement because their gospel message is Jesus died for you. They have a Heaven ticket gospel message that all you need to do is reach out and take the ticket and you have life in Heaven. The ticket is the blood of Jesus as it is compared to being like a train ticket with the destination of Heaven.
Alexander Campbell the main founder of the strange Free Will group that by the providence of God that I was born and raised in compared becoming a citizen of Heaven to becoming a citizen of the USA. Not abnormal for this Free Will group to claim that Biblical election is Satan voting against you, Jesus voting for you, and your Free Will casts the deciding vote. Great to know my vote is equal to both Satan and Jesus in the Biblical election voting for my predestination to Heaven over Hell? My Free Will is insufficient to believe that Alexander Campbell and his like-minded followers have any clue as to what the Bible has to say about election and predestination. Other than Alexander Campbell claiming to have restored a church more Primitive Christian than either Lutheranism or Calvinism; well he makes that claim but I find it a claim very difficult to believe. As to why my grandmother left the Lutheran church to join the Disciples of Christ is a mystery to me as I find it difficult to believe I would have made the same Free Will choice. I never did understand my grandmother on religious issues which raises the question if somehow the wrong baby was taken home from the hospital. I ponder if I was really born to Lutheran parents and accidentally sent from the hospital to a non-Lutheran home. I very much believe in the Lutheran gospel message of Law and Grace plus Christian Liberty on non-essential issues. Maybe Lutheranism is genetic? I read Martin Luther's "The Bondage of the Will" and totally agree with his position.
Golden Hills Community Church doesn't give out free will tickets for predestination to Heaven but desires that you make a decisional regeneration decision to ask Jesus into your heart Since this is basically a water-less version of the baptismal regeneration gospel of Alexander Campbell which I have always lacked sufficient Free Will to find in the Bible; I end up rejecting it. The Billy Graham sinner's prayer is marketed to those that believe this method has more biblical support than the just ask Jesus into your heart. I find it nice that Golden Hills Community Church is open minded enough to have two Free Will gospel messages but I believe in the Lutheran gospel message of Law and Grace as it has extreme support in the Bible per my Free Will choice. If I really do have Free Will, I demand Christian Liberty in picking the gospel message that I find to have the most in context Bible verses that supports it.
Since C. H. Spurgeon is claimed to be loved by many Free Will Evangelicals that fail to realize he doesn't believe in Free Will anymore than Martin Luther and myself. I post links to two sermons to show that I am in agreement with Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
"Law and Grace" Sermon Link
"Free Will - A Slave" Sermon Link
Since C. H. Spurgeon is claimed to be loved by many Free Will Evangelicals that fail to realize he doesn't believe in Free Will anymore than Martin Luther and myself. I post links to two sermons to show that I am in agreement with Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
"Law and Grace" Sermon Link
"Free Will - A Slave" Sermon Link

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