2 Pet 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
A counter-argument I have seen recently:
God is longsuffering to "us-ward". The "us-ward" is us believers or the "beloved" as Kat pointed out in 2 Peter 3:1. Since the us-ward is only believers, the "any" is referring to "any of us" and the "all" is referring to "all of us" Changing the meaning to:
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any of us should perish, but that all of us should come to repentance.
Not that I buy it, but it does show how some will interpret this verse. It is hard to reason with that kind of "logic". I would just point out that it doesn't say "any of us" or "any believers". "any" by itself means anyone - anyone in the whole world.
Also its a question of interpreting one verse in isolation, which we are not to do. Truth be told, this one verse by itself is slightly ambiguous. We need 2 or 3 (or more) scriptural witnesses. So combine this verse with something like Luke 3:6 or 1 Tim 2:4 or 1 Tim 4:10, or a verse that says "Jesus is the savior of the world" and we start to get a better picture. There are so many scriptural witnesses for the salvation of all, and the few scriptural witnesses for eternal torment are easily debunked by looking at the original greek. Yet for most one verse that says "eternal hell" is enough to disprove the salvation of all.
I think Ray talks about this in one of his articles...
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