07 - The Objection Particular Redemption Rules Out the Free Offer

Particular redemption means there can be no free offer; since Christ died only for the elect, salvation cannot be offered to all; Christ can be offered to all only if he died for all; since he died only for the elect, there is nothing to offer the non-elect. Or so it is said.
Take hyper-Calvinists: ‘The universal offer cannot be supported without supposing universal redemption; which those who are fond of, and yet profess particular redemption, would do well to consider’ The free offer denies ‘the doctrine of special redemption’ ‘Another Arminian footprint of the well-meant offer is the teaching of universal atonement’ ‘Those that preach a well-meaning offer of God to all men, must and will ultimately embrace the doctrine of universal atonement also... God’s well-meaning offer of salvation cannot possibly be wider in scope than the objective satisfaction and justification of the cross of Christ’ In ‘the “free offer”... the saving work on the cross is seen as a universal action on the part of Christ who so loved every man that he atoned for all their sins. This atonement is thus there for all men everywhere... Christ died to save everyone... Christ has died for all’‘All free-offer preachers... generally ignore anything to do with... the purposely limited extent of the atonement