The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not only I but also all who know the truth, 2 because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever: 3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and …
See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we …
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. …
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 …
I have always been fascinated by 2 Peter. Well, "always" being as far back as when we translated portions of it, along with 1 Peter, in Advanced Greek in Bible College. The first chapter has that wonderfully scandalous (from a Protestant perspective) verse about actually participating in God. When translating it became painfully obvious that …
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