Post by ResLight on Nov 19, 2013 19:27:21 GMT -5
2 Peter 3:9 - Desires All to Attain to Repentance
"Jehovah is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with you because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance." -- 2 Peter 3:9, New World Translation
I have just updated this study; here is an excerpt:
The claim is made by some that this scripture declares that those who are destroyed at the end of this age will be eternally destroyed, and God is thus trying, through some human agencies, to convert as many of the world as possible in order that they might escape eternal destruction.
What is this scripture actually saying? Is Yahweh (Jehovah) determined to eternally destroy billions of blinded men, women and children because they fail to repent before his final wrath is expressed upon Satan's empire? At first glance, if we have such an idea already in mind, it would appear that this is what Peter was saying. However, let us look more closely at the context and the Greek text and the meaning of what Peter was saying comes in clearer view.
Read more...
atonement.rlbible.com/?p=40
"Jehovah is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with you because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance." -- 2 Peter 3:9, New World Translation
I have just updated this study; here is an excerpt:
The claim is made by some that this scripture declares that those who are destroyed at the end of this age will be eternally destroyed, and God is thus trying, through some human agencies, to convert as many of the world as possible in order that they might escape eternal destruction.
What is this scripture actually saying? Is Yahweh (Jehovah) determined to eternally destroy billions of blinded men, women and children because they fail to repent before his final wrath is expressed upon Satan's empire? At first glance, if we have such an idea already in mind, it would appear that this is what Peter was saying. However, let us look more closely at the context and the Greek text and the meaning of what Peter was saying comes in clearer view.
Read more...
atonement.rlbible.com/?p=40
