We have arrived at 2 Pet. 2:4-22, a text that embarrasses some because it sounds so fantastical to our modern ears. Rather than try to describe what he’s saying, it’s best to hear it in Peter’s own words, but it’s a long text, so I will include the text at the end of this essay. …
In the previous essay I proposed that Peter argues the true gospel is beautiful and leads to beauty while the false gospel he is counteracting is esoteric and ultimately leads to a grotesque form of knowledge that will not save us. Peter then continues, in 1:5, “For this very reason, you must make every effort …
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2 Peter is a book that has faced persecution yet survived. It’s canonicity has been questioned more than any other New Testament book. Its authorship by Peter was doubted by several in the early church. Today it is almost universally rejected and doubted even by some of the most conservative Biblical scholars. I believe it …
Jude sees the world in black and white. On the one hand, there are “those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ” (v. 1). On the other hand, there are “certain people who have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the …
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