Category Archives: Hermeneutics

The methodology of interpretation of biblical texts

The Universalistic Passages

Probably the most plausible defence for Arminianism is found in the universalistic passages in Scripture. Three of the most quoted are: II Peter 3:9, “Not wishing [or, KJV, not willing] that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance”; I Tim. 2:4, [God our Saviour] “who would have all men to be saved, […]