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Michael S. Heiser on Extent of the atonement

1963 – 2023 · EVANGELICAL / NON-CONFESSIONAL
NOT LOCATED IN A SOURCENO POSITION FOUND°
NO STANCE — AND WHY

No position located in this corpus

Searched in the sources read for this figure and not found. A limit of the reading rather than a claim about the figure — a source not yet read could settle it.

THE POSITION

No statement located on the scope of the atonement. He addresses its nature rather than its extent, and even there is working out terminology in public: he writes that he believes in the concept of penal substitution while adding that he is going to question the terminology a bit, and settles for now on the traditional nomenclature.

WHAT OTHERS HOLD HERE

Definite — for the elect, effectuallyVODDIE BAUCHAM · JONATHAN EDWARDS · SECOND LONDON BAPTIST CONFESSION · JOHN MACARTHUR · JOHN OWEN · JOHN PIPER · R.C. SPROUL · WESTMINSTER CONFESSION
Universal — for all, applied on faithJACOBUS ARMINIUS · ATHANASIUS · CHRYSOSTOM · LUTHER · PHILIP MELANCHTHON · WESLEY
Sufficient for all, efficient for the electAQUINAS · CALVIN · CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Never framed in these termsAUGUSTINE · JOSH HOWERTON · NICAEA I · ZWINGLI
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Old Testament and Semitic languages scholar (PhD, Wisconsin, 2004), Scholar-in-Residence at Faithlife/Logos, and host of the Naked Bible Podcast. Argued that the Hebrew Bible assumes a real divine council of lesser elohim under Yahweh, and held that this reading defends rather than threatens the deity of Christ.

16 OF 18 POSITIONS QUOTED
Everything M. Heiser holds →
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"Michael S. Heiser on Extent of the atonement", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/heiser/atonement-extent (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/heiser/atonement-extent).

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