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Aion and Aionios are not irrelevant at all they are the key to understanding Gods plan to reconcile all his creation to himself 2Cor 5:19 . Even if you use the mistranslation of the English translation of scripture you have to admit that there are scriptures if taken as plainly written that seem to be conflicting . When that happens how do you decide which one trumps the other? Most of Christianity has made eternal hell their foundation and any scripture that talked about God reconciling all to himself are explained away or words are added to fit the translation. I for one start with the telos of God 1Cor 15:28 that God will be all in all , then I work backwards from there . The text that confirms this are my foundation and those scriptures that seem to be in conflict are lesser, but that’s not necessary if one understands Aion/Aionios . I am sorry that the God you follow doesn’t get what he desires, my God does Psalm 86:10 all my desires shall I do. Psalm135:6 All that Yahweh delights he does , Isa 14:24 Just as I have intended so it will be, just as I have planned, it will happen.Aion and aionios are irrelevant because there are numerous passages that refute universalism that don’t use either of those words. “Not everyone who says to me Lord Lord will enter the kingdom of God” “but woe to the man who betrays the Son of Man for it would be better for him if he had never been born” “he who blasphemes the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven” “do not fear those who are able to kill the body but fear Him who is able to kill both soul and body in hell” “this is the second death, the lake of fire and anyone who’s name was not found in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire”, not to mention all of the passages that say that people who are immoral, impure, wicked, idolators, will not enter the kingdom of God.
God desires a lot of things that He doesn’t get. As you yourself already pointed out He didn’t want to kill everyone in the flood, but He didn’t it anyway, didn’t He? He didn’t want everyone to sin, but literally everyone except God did. He didn’t want the Jews to worship idols. I mean I can sit here all night listing all the things God didn’t want to happen that did happen, one thing the scriptures have taught us consistently from Genesis to Revelation is that man has constantly been a disappointment to God. So that argument that God desires all men to be saved and that none should perish doesn’t negate the passages of scripture that I’ve quoted above that specifically state that not everyone will be forgiven and enter heaven.
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