We all would agree that Peter writes specifically about Christians possessing a saving knowledge (epignōsis) — that deep personal and experiential, relational, morally transformative knowledge of Jesus Christ (1:2–3, 1:8). But did you know that he also uses another term for general knowledge (gnōsis) or distant knowledge (1:5–6) for a special group of people within his church community? Both epignōsis and gnōsis have a root definition of 'knowledge.' But the difference bet

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