C. U. R. E. D.

• Conditional Salvation
• Unlimited Atonement
• Resistible Grace
• Eternal Security
• Delivered from trespasses and sin

CONDITIONAL SALVATION

• Then the jailer called for lights, rushed in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. 30 Then he escorted them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” 31 So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.” 32 Then they spoke the message of the Lord to him along with everyone in his house. 33 He took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds. Right away he and all his family were baptized. 34 He brought them into his house, set a meal before them, and rejoiced because he had believed God with his entire household. Acts 16:29-34 (HCSB)

• 8 On the contrary, what does it say? The message is near you, in your mouth and in your heart. This is the message of faith that we proclaim: 9 If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation. 11 Now the Scripture says, Everyone who believes on Him will not be put to shame, 12 for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, since the same Lord of all is rich to all who call on Him. 13 For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Romans 10:8-13 (HCSB)

UNLIMITED ATONEMENT

• 1 My little children, I am writing you these things so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ the Righteous One. 2 He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for those of the whole world. 1 John 2:1-2 (HCSB)

RESISTIBLE GRACE

• 28 Then Agrippa said to Paul, “Are you going to persuade me to become a Christian so easily?” 29 “I wish before God,” replied Paul, “that whether easily or with difficulty, not only you but all who listen to me today might become as I am—except for these chains.” Acts 26:28-29 (HCSB)

• 6 For among them are those who worm their way into households and capture idle women burdened down with sins, led along by a variety of passions, 7 always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the truth, men who are corrupt in mind, worthless in regard to the faith. 9 But they will not make further progress, for their lack of understanding will be clear to all, as theirs was also. 2 Tim 3:6-9 (HCSB)

• He came to His own, and His own people did not receive Him. 12 BUT to all who did receive Him, He gave them the right to be children of God, to those who believe in His name, 13 who were born, not of blood, or of the will of the flesh, or of the will of man, but of God. John 1:11-13 (HCSB)

• 37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem! The city who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, yet you were not willing! Matt 23:37 (HCSB)

ETERNAL SECURITY

• 14 If anyone’s work that he has built survives, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned up, it will be lost, but he will be saved; yet it will be like an escape through fire.1 Cor. 3:14-15 (HCSB)

• 21 Now it is God who strengthens us, with you, in Christ and has anointed us. 22 He has also sealed us and given us the Spirit as a down payment in our hearts. 2 Cor. 1:21-22 (HCSB)

DELIVERED FROM TRESPASSES AND SINS

• 1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins 2 in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler who exercises authority over the lower heavens, the spirit now working in the disobedient. 3 We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also. 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love that He had for us, 5 made us alive with the Messiah even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace! 6 Together with Christ Jesus He also raised us up and seated us in the heavens, 7 so that in the coming ages He might display the immeasurable riches of His grace through ⌊His⌋ kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift— 9 not from works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are His creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time so that we should walk in them. Eph 2:1-10 (HCSB)

• 13 And when you were dead in trespasses and in the un-circumcision of your flesh, He made you alive with Him and forgave us all our trespasses. 14 He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it out of the way by nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and disgraced them publicly; He triumphed over them by Him. Col 2:13-15 (HCSB)

Gordon L Slocum is the author of C.U.R.E.D. not the passages themselves for they are authored by God and the individual human author He chose to pin it.

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1 Peter 1

1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,

To those who reside as aliens, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen ² according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood: May grace and peace be yours in the fullest measure.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, ⁵ who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. ⁶ In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, ⁷ so that the  proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ; ⁸ and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, ⁹ obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls.

Calvinism and Universalism are both universalist, just in a different way.

The difference between a fixed out come and an outcome that is established on the foreknowledge of God is evident.  Calvinism tells us that all is first fixed and Universalism tells us the same only with different results.  Universalism teaches us that all humans will be saved and Calvinism teaches us that God will only save a few and will not save any others because it is fixed and the unsaved are determined to go to hell to glorify God making God the author of Sin.  That which is universal is free from freedom to trust in Christ, they, the frozen chosen are made to believe, this defies the very meaning of trust, belief, faith.    

The only none universal Christian position is where God holds all humanity responsible for the decisions that are made concerning His Work,  the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Christ, that each person is truly responsible for their eternal outcome on the basis of faith in Christ or faith in OTHER, whatever that OTHER is. It is that simple.  God knows the outcome of his decrees both fixed and permitted ones.  Mankind is permitted free will within the natural and spiritual limits set by God, the fixed part of our existence.  Everyone may choose to do evil or good, to reject Christ or accept Christ, this is the freedom mankind has in his fallen state and some will trust in God’s work and many will not, they are not forced to believe or not believe.   

The term foreknowledge means to know in advance what He has decreed, both fixed and free.  Free will of man is fixed to be free to trust in Christ or not trust in Christ.  God commands all mankind to repent, to trust in Christ.  A God that requires this of man and then decrees that the man cannot be saved and then saved a few without believing faith and not the others is not the God of the Bible.  God desires the salvation of all and to desire all to be saved and only save a few is Universal determinism of the Calvinist view.  In Universalism one does not have to choose. God has given us a choice, He has provided the solution and the means for us to freely receive His provision, His work verses our work.