Featured Limited or Definite Atonement is the Gospel !

Apostle paul stated that the promise was made to the seed (singular) of Abraham, in that the coming Messiah would be the One sent from God thru which all on earth would be blessed!

those who place who have faith like Abraham, who trust in his seed the Messiah, would be blessed and part of the family of God!

the Lord saves ALL through the atonement of Jesus upon the Cross, but God has His OT believers under Old Covenant, NT believers under new Covenant in the Church, those to be saved after the Rapture etc!

 

Abraham was justified by God, basis of the coming atonement to be done by Messiah jesus, but STILL he had to place faith in the promised messiah to come!
Abraham part of the family of God, just not in the Church!

 

Answering the question does not prove your interpretation of the answer. In fact the very fact that he was the seed of Abraham and head of the church proves the contrary to your position. He was not ALREADY and LITERALLY the seed of Abraham and head of the church before the world began but had to come and be born the seed of Abraham and had to build and become the head of the church in time and space. Likewise, until one is justified through faith they are still UNJUSTIFIED and thus still under CONDEMNATION as that is the reality for all who are not justified. Your response is to confuse the PURPOSE of justification with the actual APPLICATION of justification which is wrong.

 

Think he did, and you have been biblically answered by all the posters here!

 

I did! He was slain from the foundation of the world in purpose and in type but not in reality and in time until the cross. He was the head of the church before the world began as far as purpose but he was not the head literally in time until he first built the church in his own ministry prior to Pentecost.

The term "head" is never used metaphorically for spiritual union but solely for "authority." The false idea of "spiritual union" applied to Ephesians 1:22 would demand pantheism. Spiritual union is obtained by regeneration not church membership which is obtained by water baptism. Metaphorically there is more than one kind of "head" over the body of Christ as 1 Corinthians 13:21 clearly states:

And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

The term "head" in reference to Christ over the congregation simply means "final authority" as there are other lower levels of authorities that Christ has placed over the congregation which also are metaphorically represented by the term "head." Just as the term "head" is used figuratively of "authority" in 1 Cor. 11:3 in multiple lower levels of authority.

 

Look carefully at Post #45

 

The "seed" of Abraham refers to his HUMANITY through the lineage of Abraham. The metaphor "head" of the church refers to his POSITION of Authority over the church. They are not equal terms with equal meaning or equal application.

 

Yes it is the same Person but NO it is not the same application! So it is Yes and no!

 

As I said, your error is in the application of "seed" versus "head" and in your confusion of salvation with the body of Christ.

Abraham was not a member of the body of Christ as Paul explicitly states that he apostles were "FIRST" added to the church (1 Cor. 12:28; Eph. 2:20).