sola_gratia
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Could someone explain to me 2 Peter 3:9? I am not sure how to explain this to an arminian.
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You know, I actually did take the verse that way. It's nice to know someone else sees it that way and I wasn't just "wanting".What led me to think he was talking about the elect was this: "but is longsuffering to us-ward", right there you can see Peter is addressing believers. I never made the connection with those other verses. That helps a lot...thank you!Originally posted by puritancovenanter
(Mat 18:12-14) How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
I just take it Peter was referring to this statement of Jesus, in light of the following passage that John records. Maybe it is rather simplistic but It fits.
(Joh 10:26-29) But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
[Edited on 8-4-2005 by puritancovenanter]
Originally posted by sola_gratia
Could someone explain to me 2 Peter 3:9? I am not sure how to explain this to an arminian.
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
(King James Version)
And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
(King James Version)
Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:
(King James Version)
1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
(King James Version)
Originally posted by Draught Horse
throw a reductio ad absudum at him. Assume his position to be correct, then draw the logical consequences from it, which would be:
either a weak, impotent god who is limited by the nigh-sovereign will of man,
OR
universalism
Allow him no way to get off the horns of this dilemma.
[Edited on 8--7-05 by Draught Horse]
Originally posted by webmaster
2 Peter 3:9 is definitely pointing to God's forebearence in waiting on all His elect to come into the fold.