Totally depraved man without a desire for God and inclined only to evil is thus in enmity with Him (Gen 6.5). When this truth is faced squarely, limited atonement makes sense: that YHVH must supply His prevenient grace to soften the heart of the elect in order to believe and receive Christ Jesus as Lord and Savior. Only the ‘redeemed of the LORD’ - the ‘set apart ones’ that was predestined for salvation before the foundations of the world - could receive this Divinely-inspired gift of grace to believe. Salvation then is of the LORD and by the LORD and for the LORD alone.

And the seemingly saintly view that suggests the possibility of ‘the redeemed’ being condemned to an irrevocable hellish fate because of backslidings, or impenitent sins or an inconsistent Christian conduct and character not only leaves much to be desired as Darwinism, but it blasphemously invalidates the perfect and thorough redemptive work of Christ Jesus in the preservation of the saint via justification and imputed righteousness. ~ L.J