2 Peter 3:9 is Peter's epistle to those who have been granted faith (2 Peter 1:1), not "Peter's epistle to everyone and their dog".
God is not willing that Any to whom Peter is writing should Perish. Which proves the Calvinist Fifth Point, the Preservation of the Elect.
Seriously, Jorge, if you can show me where Peter prefaced his epistle, " to them that have obtained like precious faith with us and everyone else and their dog", I'll accept your reading.
Until then, I will accept that Peter was writing his letter to the people he specifically addressed.
That is why Peter, like, addressed a specific group of people, and stuff.
Until then, I will accept that Peter was writing his letter to the people he specifically addressed. That is why Peter, like, addressed a specific group of people, and stuff.
"a specific group of people, and stuff."??? "dogs"??
I have to wonder if your distorted reading of this passage proves you are not elected by God and predestined for Hell?
Obviously if you were fore-ordained for salvation you could not make such an obvious error.
I would pray for you...but since the Bible teaches God has hated you from the foundation of the world and can't wait to fry you in Hell...according to your own Calvinist doctrine that is..I will restrain my compassion.
God is not willing that Any to whom Peter is writing should Perish. Which proves the Calvinist Fifth Point, the Preservation of the Elect.
OK--imagine I am writing a letter to you and all the Calvinists on this thread. Imagine, also, that I consider myself a teacher. Now, I say "God wants everyone to be saved." No clarification. No expounding on that sentence--just a simple "God wants everyone to be saved." Do you honestly take to mean that I am only talking about you?
You claim that the bible says what it means and means what it says--yet you take a simple statement and twist it around and add words so that it will fall in line with your preconceived notions of what it should say. I believe the Pharisees did that as well.