Subject: The error addressed in 2 Peter |
Bible Note: Dear Pastor Beja, Concerning your question/comment #2: I agree, that the audience is the church. However, I do not think he is rebuking the false teachers, rather he is characterizing them. They are in the church, denying Christ, blind, under judgment and preserved for judgment, sensual, greedy, exploitive, immoral, rebellious, independent, bold, self-willed, arrogant, irrational, ignorant, apostate, unashamed, revelers, insatiable, adulterous, licentious, immature, loud, boastful, errant, enslaved to sin, scornful, unstable, corrupt, enticers, etc. The Greek word "autos" occurs 24 times in 2 Peter... self self self! Speaking of word counts, have you noticed how often the words "gnosis" (knowledge), "epignosis" (deep knowledge), "ginosko" (knowing), and "epiginosko" (thorough knowing)? John makes even heavier use of those words in dealing with the gnosticism. Just thinking, but I wonder if that error might have been primarily in Peter's mind? Regardless of the particular error, clearly the response of the believer is to grow in the grounding of those things that God has already provided: the Scriptures. I have to admit, I love these epistles. In Him, Doc PS Have you ever thought of how 2 Peter 1:1-10 might be portrayed in a diagram? |