The idea of “losing one’s salvation” is a shocking thought. Reading through 2 Peter, the shock sizzles immediately in the very first verse. The false teachers whom Peter later condemns in chapter 2 aren’t outsiders slipping in through cracks. They are insiders like Peter himself. He speaks to all his readers as those who have “obtained a faith of equal standing with ours” (2 Pet 1:1). Whoever “us” refers to—apostles or other believers—the point is clear. Peter is talking to p

In past blogs we have discussed how important Peter’s introduction is to understanding the content of his entire first letter. To add a bit more to this discussion, we can further notice that in 1Peter 1:3-5, Peter says that the “elect,” the “exiles”… those who have been “born again” (1:23, 2:2) into “God’s family” (2:17, 5:9) have received an inheritance, referring to SALVATION. We see from those verses that Peter describes this SALVATION-inheritance in three different way

In my last blog, we noticed that the first chapter of 1Peter oozed with salvation-experience concepts. The question for us now is “Why does Peter saturate his first chapter with those concepts? What is he trying to communicate to his readers? What message is it that he definitely doesn’t want them to miss? And are we able to determine an answer to any of those questions? We might be able to propose that perhaps Peter’s audience is composed of fairly new believers and he

In previous blogs, we have suggested that the introduction to Peter’s first letter (1Peter 1:1-2), can possibly be interpreted as Peter’s attempt, on one hand, to introduce the content of his entire letter, but more specifically, on the other hand, to also introduce the content of his first chapter. In this blog, we will suggest that Peter’s concluding remarks in his first chapter also indicate the content of his letter in retrospect, especially the content of his first chapt