I’m sure it’s obvious to lots of people. And I’ve had suspicions along this direction for a while. But looking at it more closely I’m now convinced that 2 Cor 5:11-6:13 is primarily about establishing Paul’s apostolic authority.
I’m looking again at sermon I gave a little while ago on 2 Peter 1:12-21.
What I’m noticing was the careful precision with which Peter describes the inspiration of the OT (prophets) in verse 20.
Picking up, again on this CHN article. The Bible is quite clear that it’s a fair question. Jesus did die for the sins of the whole world. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life”.Just a small exegetical observation.
Thanks to Chris Green and Dick Lucas in their BST commentary on 2 Peter for the following paragraph. 2 Peter 2 really is frighteningly contemporary in the scenario it describes.
Having flow charted 2 Peter, the main points stand out quite clearly from the subordinate ones.
Again – just in case this is helpful for anyone, here are two summaries of 2 Peter.
Summary
I’m doing some study of 2 Peter, and have prepared for myself a flow diagram of the English text. For those not familiar with flow diagrams, the idea is that the text is laid out to show the grammatical structure. Main clauses are placed against the left hand margin, and all dependent clauses are indented. Where it makes sense to do so, those dependent clauses are indented so as to place them directly beneath the word they depend on.
I’m preparing a sermon for a wedding on 1 John 4:7-11.
Having found a way of laying the text out in a way that I think is quite helpful, I thought I’d share it…
