8 But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. 9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:3-9 NASB
In my earliest posts, I suggested strongly that we need to take our theology from scripture. Beware the theological system that affirms God’s salvation for only a select group – an elect group. The ‘any’ and the ‘all’ of this verse prevent us from narrowing the gospel to any subset of humanity.
If we think we are to confine the good news to the Jews [as did the disciples at first], to Europeans [as did many before the age of missions] or to the hypothetical ‘elect’ [as do many in our own day]; we are putting our own understanding – our own system – ahead of the teaching found in 2 Peter 3:9.
May God grant us to understand his word and to love ‘the world’ with his love – the love that sent Jesus to the cross to die for everyone.
– SSXG