Hello my calvinist friend. I can always depend on you to show up when this subject matter arises....I just wish it was not when I'm popping in for just a quick read. lol
I will not be debating with you here, I have already done that before in the debate forum. Vektek and I are friends with different ways of living our beliefs according to scripture.
You can quote scripture to me till you are blue in the face and I will still believe my middle road stance between calvinism and arminianism. I am not an extreme side either way. It may only sound that way when I try to balance out someone else who leans too far the other direction. If I debate you, it will be a sad case of your scriptures and my scriptures and not God's scriptures.
I believe the scripture you quoted......and then some.
Enjoy!
2 Peter 3:9 - 9The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
1 Tim. 2:3-6 - 3This is good, and pleases God our Savior, 4who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 5For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6who gave himself as a ransom for all men--the testimony given in its proper time..
Romans 11:32 - 32For God has bound all men over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.
1 Corinthians 15:22 - 22For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
Titus 2:11 - 11For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.
Acts 17:30-31 - 30In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. 31For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead."
John 3:16-18 - 16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[1] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.
1 John 4:14 - 14And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
Philippians 2:10-11 - 10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
1 Timothy 4:10 - 10(and for this we labor and strive), that we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, and especially of those who believe.
Colossians 1:20 - 20and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
Hebrews 2:9 - 9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
John 1:29 - 29The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
1 John 2:2 - 2He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for[1] the sins of the whole world.
Romans 5:18 - 18Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15 - 14For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
1 Timothy 2:5-6 - 5For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6who gave himself as a ransom for all men--the testimony given in its proper time.
Isaiah 55:1, 7 - 1 "Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.
7 Let the wicked forsake his way
and the evil man his thoughts.
Let him turn to the LORD , and he will have mercy on him,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
Matthew 11:28 - 28"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Hebrews 9:26 - 26Then Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Isaiah 53:6 - 6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
2 Corinthians 5:14-20 - 14For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
16So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 18All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God.
Revelation 22:17 - 17The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life.
1 Tim 1:15 - 15Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners--of whom I am the worst.
Romans 5:6-8 - 6You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 8But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
John 12:46 - 46I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.
John 12:47 - 47"As for the person who hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save it.