Talk about possibilities, can you find one single solitary case in the entire Bible that one has been saved, or that will be saved, but what has received the benefits of the atonement? Can you find a single one? Making atonement is one thing, and its application is another. My Brother gets into trouble on this question by not getting on the right end of the question. There is not a single bit of relevancy in the brother's argument for the real point he is trying to prove. [I.N. Penick, from his debate with Elder C. H. Cayce in 1907.]

“The Scriptures teach that all for whom Christ died will be saved in heaven.” All through this First Proposition of the debate, Mr. Penick had been hammering away at the fact that there is a difference between making atonement and receiving the benefits of the atonement. Who would argue that point? It was Christ who made atonement. And we who received the benefits. Since Mr. P. believed that only those who accepted the supposed offer of salvation would receive the benefits of the atonement, it is easy to see why he had to have that distinction. However, Brother Paul says, “While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.” We were justified by the blood and the death of Jesus. Mr. Pinnick's problem is that Paul sets an inflexible equivalency in Romans 8: 30: “Whom He justified, them he also glorified.” If He Justified them, then they shall Live in heaven. If he gave his blood to be shed for them, and he died for them, then they were justified. Certainly we cannot find anyone who was saved but who received the benefits of the atonement. Neither can we find anyone who received those benefits who was not saved, because the persons involved in one are exactly the same as those involved in the other - likewise with foreknowledge and predestination.

Mr. Penick probably would prefer to say we cannot find anyone who was saved, but what has accepted the benefits of the atonement. However, accepting and receiving are two different things. To accept something requires our willingness to be involved, but not so with receiving something. We might receive a poke in the nose, but it is unlikely we would willingly accept it.

Paul makes it clearer in Romans 5:8-10 that those for whom Christ died were justified, reconciled, and saved from wrath. He goes on to establish in chapter 8 that if God has justified us, there is no charge that can be laid against us. He also tells us in verse 34, that none for whom Christ died can be condemned. In Romans 5., “atonement”, and “reconciled” are from the same root word.; They mean the same thing. If we were reconciled by the death of God's Son, then we then He atoned for our sins. If He atoned for our sins, then there is no charge. (Including the charge of unbelief) that can be laid against us. If there is no charge against us, then certainly we must be justified; And Paul says that those who have been justified certainly shall be glorified. In other words, as Elder Casey's proposition said, “all for whom Christ died will be saved in heaven.”