{"id":8668,"date":"2022-04-12T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8668"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:11","slug":"perish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8668","title":{"rendered":"PERISH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><spanPalatino Linotype\", Palatino, serif;text-align: justify' style=\"background-color: #fff9ee;color: #222222\">It is the word that\u00a0<spanPalatino Linotype\", Palatino, serif;text-align: justify' style=\"background-color: #fff9ee;color: #222222\">Peter uses to describe silver and gold as &#8220;<b>perishable<\/b>&#8221; things (I Pet 1:18).<\/span><spanPalatino Linotype\", Palatino, serif;text-align: justify' style=\"background-color: #fff9ee;color: #222222\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #222222\">2 Peter 3:9: &#8220;<spanPalatino Linotype\", Palatino, serif;text-align: justify' style=\"background-color: #fff9ee;color: #222222\">The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to <b>perish <\/b>but for all to come to repentance.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: #fff9ee;color: #222222;text-align: justify\">&#8220;For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not <b>perish<\/b>, but have eternal life.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: #fff9ee;color: #222222;text-align: justify\">Is there good reason to read more into &#8220;perish&#8221; here than the plain meaning of\u00a0 &#8220;destroyed&#8221;, as in &#8220;existing no more&#8221;?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: #fff9ee;color: #222222;text-align: justify\">Why are we conditioned to read die\/perish\/destroyed as &#8220;suffer eternally in Hell&#8221;?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #222222;font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif\">James 4:12: &#8220;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #222222;font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif\">There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to <b>destroy<\/b>; but who are you who judge your neighbor?&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 2 Peter 3:9: &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8669,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8668\/revisions\/8669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}