For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
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.
Here is your problem my friend...you are taking one verse from the whole and extrapolating it. I can do that and come up with some of the worst doctrine(s) out there. But you can not take a verse and extrapolate it and consider that to be solid hermeneutics.
1 First of all, then, I urge that entreaties
and prayers, petitions
and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, 2 for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. 3 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God,
and one mediator also between God and men,
the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony
given at the proper time. 7 For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying) as a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. (1 Timothy 2)
Here is what gets lost in the shuffle. It says He(Jesus) is the Mediator between God and man. He is now our High Priest, as the OT high priest typified Jesus. Now, who did the OT high priest intercede for, mediate for? All men indiscriminately or the Jews? It was for the nation of Israel. He never interceded for the Hivites, Jebusites, Hittites, Assyrians, Egyptians, Syrians, Philistines, &c. When Aaron laid his hands upon the scapegoat in Leviticus 16, whose sins were placed upon it and then led into the wilderness? The Jews. Those other nations did not have a sacrificial system that would allow for their sins to be atoned for. Only Israel had this. Jesus does not intercede for all men, my friend, but only for His people, as the OT high priest only interceded for the people of God.
1 This is now,
beloved, the second letter I am writing to
you in which I am stirring up
your sincere mind by way of reminder, 2 that
you should remember the words spoken beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior
spoken by
your apostles.
3 Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with
their mocking, following after their own lusts, 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For
ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.” 5 For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God
the heavens existed long ago and
the earth was formed out of water and by water, 6 through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water. 7 But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
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)
Look at all the personal pronouns and nouns. This was addressed to believers my friend, not unbelievers. He is not willing any of them, these believers to perish. In fact, He was so unwilling for them to perish, He sent them a redeemer who died for them.
And Jesus proves this...
12 “What do you think? If any man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go and search for the one that is straying? 13 If it turns out that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray. 14 So
it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven
that one of these little ones perish."(Matthew 18)
In John 10 Jesus says He is giving His life for the sheep(verses 10 and 15). He said He was not praying for the world, but those the Father gave Him(John 17:9). Then is Ephesians 5:25 it says that He gave His life for the church. Nowhere does these verses mean all men. Nowhere.
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