Free Willers and 2 Peter 3:9

[Carbon]

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. 2 Peter 3:9. -​

....... to teach God is not willing that any should perish.​

Its not teaching that he won't let some perish.

It means He will give obstinate stubborn ones more and more opportunities to believe than anyone should deserve.

It means no such thing!

 

[GeneZ]

It means no such thing!

Oh! yes it does!

 

[Carbon]

Oh! yes it does!

I know you would like to think so.

 

[GeneZ]

I know you would like to think so.

God sovereignly makes me think so?

Please..... the Calvinist rationale has its limits.

And, wishes to limit others who have more to think with.

 

[jeremiah1five]

9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any [of us-ward] should perish, but that all [of us-ward] should come to repentance. 2 Peter 3: 8–9.

And all of us-ward shall come to repentance because they are elect of God to come to repentance and salvation.

Who are the "us-ward"?

They are the people Peter addresses his letter to:

1 SIMON Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you
through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
3 According as his divine power hath given unto us
all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us
to glory and virtue:
4 Whereby are given unto us
exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye
might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2 Peter 1:1–4.

They are the people that have "obtained like precious faith" with him and the rest of the believers.

Peter also identifies this people in his first letter:

1 PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
1 Peter 1:1–2.

Why do so many miss this?