This Scripture is REAL? Does the Lord Desire people to Perish?

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MatthewG

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2 Peter 3:9
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2 Peter 3:9

9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

Is the Lord truly not willing that any should perish?
Or does the Lord glory in the perishing and destruction of others?
What is your view on this single passage, There is also 1 Timothy 2:1-4 to consider about if God really desires for people to come to the knowledge of truth or not?

The scripture is suppose to help us and if you are seeking after God what are your thoughts on these things? Are they truly expressing God's desires, and will about other people and does God's goodness compare to relating to what the desires, and will are in 2 Peter 3:9, and 1 Timothy 2:1-4?
 
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2 Peter 3:9
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2 Peter 3:9

9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

Is the Lord truly not willing that any should perish?
Or does the Lord glory in the perishing and destruction of others?
What is your view on this single passage, There is also 1 Timothy 2:1-4 to consider about if God really desires for people to come to the knowledge of truth or not?

The scripture is suppose to help us and if you are seeking after God what are your thoughts on these things? Are they truly expressing God's desires, and will about other people and does God's goodness compare to relating to what the desires, and will are in 2 Peter 3:9, and 1 Timothy 2:1-4?


You answered your own question Matt with the very verse I would have used to answer it. Fantastic!
 

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2 Peter 3:9
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Bible Gateway passage: 2 Peter 3:9 - Mounce Reverse Interlinear New Testament

2 Peter 3:9

9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

Is the Lord truly not willing that any should perish?
Or does the Lord glory in the perishing and destruction of others?
What is your view on this single passage, There is also 1 Timothy 2:1-4 to consider about if God really desires for people to come to the knowledge of truth or not?

The scripture is suppose to help us and if you are seeking after God what are your thoughts on these things? Are they truly expressing God's desires, and will about other people and does God's goodness compare to relating to what the desires, and will are in 2 Peter 3:9, and 1 Timothy 2:1-4?
That word "willing" can be confusing. Read this version of the same verse:

"The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." II Peter 3:9 [SV]

God really does not desire or want or wish anyone to perish, but He has an overall to bring people to where He wishes them to be. How many are going to choose to walk according His ideal plan rather than choosing the alternative which God has provided and does allow? Only a few will enter in according to God's ideal as Jesus told us. It will be their choice which is what God really is looking for. It is what God's whole plan is set in place for...!

"Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." Matt 7:13-14 [KJV]

The wide gate is also there, but God's Word is spoken here through Jesus. Who really loves the Truth that Jesus is and without hesitation always is striving to follow that Truth? The other way is a delusion...
 

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This Scripture is REAL? Does the Lord Desire people to Perish?
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Does the Lord "Desire" people to
"Perish" ?
No.

* Scripturally "Perish" IS; inanutshell...
ETERNAL DEATH.

* Scripturally "Perish" IS: inanutshell...
The Promised Judgement and Sentence for ANY man whose Standing IS Against God.

* Does God WANT, REQUIRE the physical DEATH of an Earthly man?
Yes.

* WHY? Because the Manifestation of His Promise for *"men IN STANDING WITH HIM", OF an Uncorrupted Glorified Body, "CAN NOT", BECOME "manifested", UNTIL the natural flesh body, has CEASED its Natural Life.

Glory to God,
Taken