“As you can read plainly and for yourself, Peter calls for us to be holy.
It is a call for action.
Actions take effort and effort is measured by work.
God the Father judges work.
Christ was chosen before the world began.
With utter clarity you can see that “through him [Jesus Christ} you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.” God and Jesus Christ are distinct personages with distinct duties.
The situation for believers is dynamic: “22 Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.[b] 23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.”
We must purify ourselves by obedience to the truth which leads to a sincere love and being born again via continuing revelation.
1st Peter is an excellent exposition, but it doesn’t certify a universal priesthood, quite the opposite.”
I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but nowhere in your argument did you actually prove that all Christians aren’t priests and kings in the sight of God. Except for the lame anti-Trinitarian arguments, you didn’t even make an argument here that disproves “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people” (1 Pet 2:9).
You muttered something about the elect obeying, and said all sorts of things, but nothing I thought was in any way interesting or favorable for whatever position it is you are trying to promote.
For your education, the Elect are those who were chosen before the foundation of the world without regard for their merits (1 Ti 1:9). They did not choose Christ, Christ chose them, and ordained them for good works, which will abide forever (John 15:16). For it is God who works in them both to will and to do of His good pleasure (Php 2:13).
Exactly. I looked long & hard to decipher any kind of cogent response point as to what/why he was objecting to Peter's elaboration -- and saw none.
Take a look at the OT, the priesthood there. Then ask yourself how and to who would you deliver Peter’s letter?
You have to do some thinking for yourself.