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NASB | 2 Peter 3:9 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. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord does not delay [as though He were unable to act] and is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is [extraordinarily] patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. |
Subject: Debate Arminian/Calvinist views? |
Bible Note: I like the line from a song in "The Sound of Music": "me, a name I call myself." The forum's "justme" has captured that one however, and it's a superb user ID. I like the name "justme" and I like the book title "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis for much the same reasons. There's a certain plainness and lack of pretense about these names. When I read user names that seem to be trying to make a denominational or doctrinal statement, I tend to wince, square my jaw, and view what they have to say with a jaundiced eye. Should I read user names like R.Minian, Cal-Vin, KJ Only, Ethel Mormon, J.Witness, or SavedbyWater, my guard would go up and I would take with several grains of salt whatever they opined on. Likely as not I'd be able to make a fairly well educated guess about what they were likely to expound on and the conclusions they reasonably could be expected to reach. Thus armed with this advance warning, I should feel somewhat cheated for, as with a good mystery tale, it's much less interesting when one pretty well knows the outcome in advance!.... I join CDBJ in ruing the day when it no longer means much to call oneself a Christian without the use of modifiers. One is pressed in today's world to accept one label or another, and if he refuses to do so, along will come the label makers and slap one on him anyway. There are those who hold that if one isn't a Calvinist he is an Arminian by default. This is wrong. It is, in fact, both wrong and ridiculous. What were Christians called in Antioch? Were they divided into two camps and called pre-Calvinists and pre-Arminians? Calvinists think they are right. Arminians think they are right. Can two opposing views, both of whom claim scriptural foundation in support of their views, be right in all doctrinal matters? No, they cannot both be right, but it is possible that they can be wrong in certain points of doctrine. Is it possible to be a Christian, a child of the King, to be regenerated and on one's way to heaven, without subscribing in toto to either Calvinism, Arminianism or any other "ism" that happens to pop up? In my 54 years as a Christian I have come to believe that it certainly is. Not only possible, but rather desirable in my view. --Hank |