Sunday, August 9, 2015

Those who already died and have been judged to Hell were not redeemed by Christ's blood

"Since the world cannot receive him (Jn 14:17), it cannot for this reason say that it has been redeemed by Christ's blood. For whoever says this says nothing, and for this reason he does not say anything even now, because he does not say this in the Holy Spirit, who is the Spirit of truth (Jn 14:17; 16:13). For what he says is false and for this reason he does not say anything now because what he says is nothing. For if the baptized reprobate were redeemed by the blood of Christ's cross, they were therefore also saved and set free by him. But those who have been quite rightly already judged, already condemned, already predestined to everlasting death by Christ himself and, as has been said, rightly already hurled down into it, were not saved and set free by him. Therefore, they were not redeemed by the blood of his cross. And so let the mute dog ceasing from barking, for Christ is truly the redeemer, savior, and deliverer not of two worlds, but of one, that is, of the elect world alone, namely, his body. Whoever does not see this blind; whoever denies this is slain." - Gottschalk of Orbais, Gottschalk and A Medieval Predestination Controversy

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