OK...now that we've established that...there are also qualifiers all around 2 Peter 3:9. 'Us', 'we', 'you'. Context, context, context!!!
Ok, you agree that "all" = all, all the time?
Here is the context:
But let not this one thing be hidden from you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 3:9 The Lord does not delay his promise, as some account of delay, but is longsuffering towards you, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements, burning with heat, shall be dissolved, and the earth and the works in it shall be burnt up. 3:11 All these things then being to be dissolved, what ought ye to be in holy conversation and godliness, 3:12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements, burning with heat, shall melt? 3:13 But, according to his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness. 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, as ye wait for these things, be diligent to be found of him in peace, without spot and blameless; 3:15 and account the longsuffering of our Lord to be salvation; according as our beloved brother Paul also has written to you according to the wisdom given to him,
Now, the beloved in v. 8 are the saved, right?
The "you" in v.9 are the saved, right?
So, why would there be a concern that those "saved" would perish? Why would those "saved" have to come to repentance?
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