{"id":3620,"date":"2014-08-07T08:58:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T12:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=3620"},"modified":"2014-08-07T08:58:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T12:58:01","slug":"any","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3620","title":{"rendered":"Any"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>11 Peter 3:9<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Lord is not slack concerning\u00a0His\u00a0promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us,\u00a0not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Why isn&#8217;t the plain meaning of Peter&#8217;s words enough for us? \u00a0&#8220;The Lord is&#8230;not willing that <em>any <\/em>should perish.&#8221; \u00a0How many Calvinist theologians have endeavored carefully to analyze this verse. \u00a0What was Peter really saying? \u00a0Perhaps it is better understood that &#8220;The Lord is not willing that any (of the elect) should perish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If that is what Peter really meant, then why would Peter&#8217;s disciples, and their disciples in turn, not have emphasized this in their writings?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning\u00a0His\u00a0promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us,\u00a0not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. Why isn&#8217;t the plain meaning of Peter&#8217;s words enough for us? \u00a0&#8220;The Lord is&#8230;not willing that any should perish.&#8221; \u00a0How many Calvinist theologians have endeavored &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3620\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Any&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3621,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions\/3621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}