I have NOT taken 2 Peter 3:9 out of context. It is just that you do not want to believe it as it refutes your view.
Since you obviously hate doing exegesis, I guess I'll do your work for you. That seems to be the trend around here. Synergist quotes some verse out of context and the monergist has to do the work to show that the synergist is misusing the verse. Sigh. Oh well. Hopefully this clears up your confusion:
1. Who is Peter writing to?
This is now the second letter that I am writing to you,
beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder... (2 Peter 3:1 ESV)
Ok so he's writing to Christians.
2. What is the context of chapter 3 and verse 9? What is the topic Peter is addressing?
They will say, Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation. For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly. (2 Peter 3:4-7 ESV)
Peter is addressing the fact that scoffers will come along and question the 2nd coming of Christ. But Peter reassures them, the Christians he's writing to, that the Lord isn't slow to fulfill his promise:
But do not overlook this one fact,
beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward
you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. (2 Peter 3:8-9 ESV)
Ok so Peter is telling the beloved,
Christians, that God is patient toward them by saying "The Lord... is patient toward
YOU... who? God's elect. Peter told them this is the 2nd letter he's writing to them. In the first letter to them, he says:
To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you. (1 Peter 1:1-2 ESV)
So God is patient toward you/beloved/Christians/God's elect, not wishing any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. The whole point is, God is patient towards his elect, not wishing any should perish, but that all of his elect should reach repentance. God is delaying the 2nd coming of Christ until all of his elect reach repentance.
But somehow, you want us to believe Peter is saying that God is not wishing that any person at all perish and that every single human being should reach repentance? How does that convince the Christians he's writing to that God is patient toward them? Let's see how that works:
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward
you, not wishing that any person on the face of the earth perish, but that every single human being should reach repentance. (2 Peter 3:9 ESV)
How does that show patience toward the Christians he's writing to? It doesn't. Furthermore, if God truly isn't wishing that any perish, He better wait until the last human being he creates dies to maximize the amount of people who will be in heaven. Then, when there are no people left, he can send Christ! Yeah, your interpretation doesn't make any sense in context. It makes much more sense to say God is patient toward His elect, not wishing any OF THEM perish, but that they all reach repentance.
As to the verses of prevenient grace, I have provided them for you in a systematic theology format.
More like a shotgun approach format.
I don't plan on repeating them and your demand for me to exegete some verses to try to persuade you is as promising as a ship trying to float on dry land.
Fine with me. I don't have any reason to believe you're capable of exegesis anyway since I've never once seen it from you. You act like we're supposed to let you quote verses and just take your word that they mean what you say they mean. Not gonna work here bud!
That God is willing for all to be saved and that only some respond to that salvation is not defined as God creating "multitudes of people who he knows will never believe". It is God creating all people with the free will to choose for or against God, for or against Jesus ("Choose this day whom you will serve"). God foreknows those who will and will not respond for saving faith. That is not an indictment on God for people who do not respond to the Gospel.
If God knows Bob won't believe, and God creates Bob anyway, Bob can never believe. I'm sorry you're not able to see this.
