Featured THE LORD IS…NOT WILLING THAT ANY OF YOU SHOULD PERISH

It is not nonsense. It is a charge for evangelism. We do not know who the elect are, but God is patient that His elect will be saved by hearing and responding to His direct call through the preaching of His Word.

 

No, all types of people, general. Read the passage.

 

Except that is how God set it up.

 

Yes, and that changed nothing in what I said.

 

Can you not have civil conversation?

 

I love the truth.

 

More ad hominem instead of engaging the arguments.

 

Peter wasn't 'Reformed'.

 

Gill: but is longsuffering to us-ward:

not to all the individuals of human nature,
for the persons intended by us
are manifestly distinguished from "some men" in the text,

and from scoffers, mocking at the promise of Christ's coming,
in the context, ( 2 Peter 3:3 2 Peter 3:4 ) ;

and are expressly called beloved,
( 2 Peter 3:1 2 Peter 3:8 2 Peter 3:14 2 Peter 3:17 ) ;

and God's longsuffering towards them is their salvation,
( 2 Peter 3:15 ),

nor is it true of all men, that God is not willing that any of them should perish, and that every one of them should come to repentance,

since many of them do perish in their sins,
and do not come to repentance,

which would not be the case, if his determining will was otherwise;

besides, a society or company of men are designed,
to which the apostle himself belonged,
and of which he was a part;
and who are described, in his epistles, as the elect of God,

called out of darkness, into marvellous light,
and having obtained like precious faith with the apostles;

and must be understood either of God's elect among the Jews,
for Peter was a Jew, and they were Jews he wrote to;

 

You do realize that "oldest" is often (I didn't say "always") weakest when it comes to manuscript evidence, right?
The manuscripts survive longer due to lack of use, due to being ignored.
One was found in the trash. Guess which one.