Evidently, you do not know what God saw by his foreknowledge; Psalms 53:2-3, God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God. Every one of them is gone back, they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
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2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness , but is long suffering toward US, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
What Peter is saying is that God has plans to save others in the future. That is why He is long suffering and not willing that those chosen in the future should die. Notice that the message is directed to Us (saved Christians).
What Peter is saying is that God has plans to save others in the future. That is why He is long suffering and not willing that those chosen in the future should die. Notice that the message is directed to Us (saved Christians).
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Romans 9 (New King James Version)
22What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, 24even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
Romans 9 (New King James Version)
22What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, 24even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
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God chastens those that he loves. Romans 2 is explaining what happens to God's born again children, when they are disobedient, and he chastens them. Verse 4 reaffirms this in saying that the goodness of his chastenings leads, those of his children that are suffering the tribulations and anguish of his chastenings, to repentance.
The goodness and longsuffering and forbearance of God for his children is demonstrated in Romans 2:4, the same as he demonstrates it in 2 Pet 3:9.
By your theory, you are sending way more to hell than the scriptures teach. The scriptures are written to God's born again children, instructing them how he wants them to live their lives as they sojourn here on earth.
The goodness and longsuffering and forbearance of God for his children is demonstrated in Romans 2:4, the same as he demonstrates it in 2 Pet 3:9.
By your theory, you are sending way more to hell than the scriptures teach. The scriptures are written to God's born again children, instructing them how he wants them to live their lives as they sojourn here on earth.
The tense of this verse suggests that God's state of being is patient while perpetually wanting no one to perish but all to come to repentance. Since God is eternal and unchanging, the nuance here is that this is in reference to the past, present, and future. Remember, all have sinned. The "us" is the human race in general, not saved Christians who have already repented.
2 Peter 3:9 is not talking about christian behavior but christians that are chosen in the future. God will not end it all until all that are chosen in the future have repented and are saved. He is not willing that any of them perish which demonstrates His goodness and long suffering. Long suffering because He still has to put up with sinful unsaved people.
The scriptures uphold the fact that God, did indeed, give mankind the freedom to choose out how he wants to live his life as he sojourns here on earth, but mankind's eternal inheritance is made by God's sovereign grace, without the choice of mankind.
God's inspired scriptures are instructions as to how he wants his born again children to live their lives as they sojourn here on earth, but there is not any of us that follow his instructions all of the time, and he chastens us when we do not.
God's inspired scriptures are instructions as to how he wants his born again children to live their lives as they sojourn here on earth, but there is not any of us that follow his instructions all of the time, and he chastens us when we do not.
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Because of God's foreknowledge that no one would seek him, is the reason that he choose an elect people before the foundation of the world, Eph 1:4
God predetermined that he would adopt his elect children by his Son's death to pay for their sins on the cross as payment for their adoption, Eph 1:4
All of God's elect children are born into this world tainted with the sin of Adam, and sometime between the elects natural birth and their natural death, God quickenes them to a spiritual life with the indwelling of the Holy Spirit enabling them to believe in the things of the Spirit, by the revelation of the Holy Ghost.
The final phase of God's adoption of his elect will be when he sends Christ back to gather up his elect and brings them home.
Our legal system still uses the same method to adopt children in this day and time.
God predetermined that he would adopt his elect children by his Son's death to pay for their sins on the cross as payment for their adoption, Eph 1:4
All of God's elect children are born into this world tainted with the sin of Adam, and sometime between the elects natural birth and their natural death, God quickenes them to a spiritual life with the indwelling of the Holy Spirit enabling them to believe in the things of the Spirit, by the revelation of the Holy Ghost.
The final phase of God's adoption of his elect will be when he sends Christ back to gather up his elect and brings them home.
Our legal system still uses the same method to adopt children in this day and time.
