How does Limited Atonement affect your relationship with God?

[1689Dave]

I will answer first by saying that I have never been so free and happy in my relationship with the Lord since I first heard the doctrine of Limited Atonement. It tells me that Christ paid for my sins on the cross and that is why I believe. I could not believe in any true sense had he not.

I was so burnt out after churches taught me I must save myself by doing Christian things. And I'll go to hell if I don't. I always feared I hadn't done enough to keep saved. It drove me to do all of those things, not in love for others, but to keep from going to hell.

It was such a relief to abandon salvation by works and to quit trying to believe. Realizing that I really do believe even if I try to doubt.

 

[1689Dave]

I must say, I developed a great sense of compassion for Jehovah's Witnesses, and churches of the free will works persuasion who are driven by a fear of hell rather than by a genuine love of Christ. You cannot love Christ to any extent unless you know he died especially for your sins in particular.