2 Peter 2:1?

[Rescued One]

[bible]2 Peter 2:1[/bible]

How do you explain this in the Unorthodox section?

http://www.christianforums.com/showpost.php?p=28212940&postcount=207

 

[heymikey80]

[bible]2 Peter 2:1[/bible]

How do you explain this in the Unorthodox section?

http://www.christianforums.com/showpost.php?p=28212940&postcount=207

Of course Christ bought them. Through Christ's humility He gained the right to be Lord over the entire universe, King of all creation, over every thing that is.

Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Pp 2:9-11
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But that doesn't mean every thing in the universe receives eternal life in the New Creation. In fact quite the contrary: Jesus saves those who are His in a special sense, who believe in Him.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. John 3:16-18
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There's a great article on 2 Peter 2:1 by Simon Escobedo III over at Alpha & Omega Ministries.