I would agree with Bawb on the Timothy passage. I've understood it to be "all types of men." But that doesn't explain 1 John 2:2.

And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. I understand the "cosmos" argument, and agree with it in most cases. But this verse, in context, can't be explained as readily.

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