death of Christ cannot be a true satisfaction of God's justice, for if Christ satisfied God's justice and bore the wrath of God due the sins of all, God cannot be just in damning any. Therefore the Arminians were forced by the logic of their own position to teach that Christ died for nobody in particular, but for all in general, and that by His death made salvation a mere possibility for all on the condition of faith and perseverance in good works. The Synod of Dordt (1618-1619) condemned the Arminian view of the atonement as heresy and insisted that the cross was for the elect only. II. HISTORICAL SKETCH A. A new heresy in France The Arminian heresy had just been refuted by the fathers at Dordt when a new heresy arose, more subtle than the last. The promoter of this heresy was Moise Amyraut (1596-1664), a French pastor, theologian and professor at the Academy of Saumur in France. Amyraldianism, as this heresy has come to be known, unchecked by discipline, flourished in France and infiltrated many parts of Europe. A long and bitter controversy in the French churches resulted in which the orthodox men in the churches sought in vain to have Amyraldianism condemned by the French synods. 1 The leaven of false doctrine spread. Today the teaching of Amyraut is popular among many professing Calvinists. 2 Followers of Amyraut's teachings claim that they are the true successors of John Calvin (1509-1564) whose doctrine Amyraut himself claimed to