People end up in eternal doom because they reject God's pardon in unbelief — not because their sins have not been paid for.
God's work in Christ is reconciliation, and Christ tasted death for every man. Les Feldick teaches that the sin debt has been paid and a pardon is already accomplished for every human being. The only reason anyone enters eternal doom is refusing to appropriate that pardon by believing the Gospel.
2 Corinthians 5:17-18 — Shows that God's reconciling work in Christ makes believers new creatures — the provision that precedes condemnation for those who reject it.
Hebrews 2:9 — States that Jesus tasted death for every man, so no one can say they lacked a pardon.
Hebrews 3:18 — Directly ties exclusion from God's rest to unbelief, the same unbelief Les identifies as the sole reason for eternal doom.
The Scripture passages cited in this teaching establish both the provision and the disqualification. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says that if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; all things are become new. The following verse declares that all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5:18). Hebrews 2:9 says that Jesus, by the grace of God, tasted death for every man — every human being is covered by that death. Hebrews 3:18 then asks who could not enter God's rest: 'but to them that believed not?' The biblical answer visible in these verses is that what God has provided through Christ is universal in scope, but unbelief is the reason people do not enter into what He has provided.
Les Feldick teaches that the work of the cross has already paid the sin debt for every human being who has ever lived. He says every person has already been pardoned by virtue of the cross, but a pardon only helps if it is appropriated by faith. The sin debt is finalized once and for all, so the only sin that will put a person into eternal doom is rejecting the Gospel. Les is emphatic that lost humanity does not go to the lake of fire because of drunkenness, adultery, gambling, or any other sin. They go because of unbelief — they refuse to believe that everything is already done. He also says the eternal doom of the wicked will be made awful not by flames but by an eternity of regret: knowing the pardon was fully paid for and was rejected. He describes rejecting God's offer of salvation as rejecting a pardon, and says when people spurn the love God has shown them, God in His sovereignty has every right to reject them at the Great White Throne.
Les Feldick states plainly that the sin debt has been paid and finalized. The only sin that will ever put a person out into eternal doom is rejecting the Gospel. He is careful to say that people in the lake of fire are not there because of their drunkenness, adultery, gambling, or whatever else might be called sin; they are there because of unbelief. They refuse to believe that everything is already done.
Les says God has already loved people to the very extent that heaven could offer, and He gave it to every human being who has ever lived. When a human being spurns that love, God in His sovereignty has every right in the world to reject them at the Great White Throne. This answers the objection that a God of love cannot judge — the judgment comes after love has been fully offered and deliberately rejected.
Les says it will not be the heat of the flames or unsatisfied appetites that make eternal doom awful. It will be an eternity of regret. Those in the lake of fire will forever know, 'I didn't have to be here. This was all paid for, and I rejected it.' He describes this as walking underfoot what was fully paid for and calls it what it is — rejecting a pardon.
Les quotes Hebrews 3:18 — 'And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?' He uses this to show that the hang-up people have is unbelief. People think they need to clean up their act first, but that is not the way. God calls people to come as they are and believe what He has already accomplished on the cross.
Reconciliation and the New Creation
Les explains that God's goal is reconciliation — bringing separated people back into fellowship — which is the purpose behind Christ's work and the reason rejecting that work leaves people in doom.
The One Sin That Damns
Les says the sin debt has already been paid for all; the only sin that puts a person into eternal doom is rejecting the Gospel.
Eternal Regret
Because Jesus tasted death for every man, the terrible part of eternal doom will be unending regret that the payment was fully made and rejected.
Pardon Already Accomplished
Every human being has already been pardoned by the work of the cross; the only reason they do not receive it is that they will not appropriate it by faith.
Unbelief as the Problem
People reject their pardon, and Les links unbelief to Scripture — those who did not enter God's rest were those 'who believed not' (Hebrews 3:18).
Rejecting a Pardon
When lost people reject God's offer of salvation, they are rejecting a pardon — a decree that clears the record completely.
Spurned Love and God's Right to Reject
God extended His love to every human being; when it is spurned, God in sovereignty has every right to reject them at the Great White Throne.
Lake of Fire: Unbelief, Not Sin
Lost humanity will not go to the lake of fire because of sins like drunkenness or adultery; they go for one reason — refusing to believe that everything is already done.
2 Corinthians 5:17: Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Shows the new identity of those who are in Christ following God's reconciling work.
2 Corinthians 5:18: And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
Declares that reconciliation comes from God through Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 2:9: But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
Establishes that Christ's death covered every man, making the pardon available to all.
Hebrews 3:18: And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
Shows unbelief as the reason people fail to enter God's rest.
Yes, according to Les Feldick. The sin debt for every person has already been paid, so the only sin that will put a person into eternal doom is rejecting the Gospel — refusing to believe that everything is already done. That rejection is the unbelief that stands between a person and the pardon God provided.
Les says every human being that has ever lived has already been pardoned by virtue of the work of the cross. Pardon is accomplished, but it is not applied until a person believes. Millions will come before the Great White Throne as 'good people' whose sin is simply unbelief.
Because those sins have already been atoned for in Christ's death. People are not going to the lake of fire for their sins; they are going because of unbelief — they refuse to believe that the payment was already made.
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