Many Calvinist in trying to respond to those who are not Calvinist in saying that Christ death is "sufficient for all, but efficient for the elect only." This statement is false however, for it says that Christ's merely took upon himself the wrath of God (which is true. Christ really did die to propitiate or appease or pacify the wrath of God in His death). But the fact is that Christ also took upon Himself the sins of the elect only and not the worlds. So to say that Christ death is sufficient for all is to say that Christ death only made it possible for all to come, but all cannot come because they are depraved and so it is therefore just efficient for God's elect.
The truth is that Christ death was sufficient for the elect only and efficient for the elect only. The reprobate cannot turn to Christ nor has God ordained such things to happen. In leaving the reprobate in their sin God has not sinned for He does not work in the reprobate something that they have already which is sin.
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