Comments on: 2 Peter 2:20

By: Grant

Grant — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 23:09:39 +0000

I don’t know about this Don.

By: Donald Knapp

Donald Knapp — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:32:34 +0000

Yes, I got your email. They are passed on to me. Earthlink has a glitch which has been repeated for a number of people I’ve written to. I do not know how to eliminate it. Do you?

By: Donald Knapp

Donald Knapp — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:28:53 +0000

How about a commentary on the significance of “worse than” in vs. 20? It is found in Hebrews 10:29, “Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?” This was one of the cross references in Bagster’s Analytical Greek Lexicon, p. 436. Isn’t it amazing how many times the Scriptures dovetails in explaining itself with clarity and potency?

By: Grant

Grant — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:51:32 +0000

Don, did you get my email (I received a bounce when I replied)?

By: Grant

Grant — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:40:03 +0000

Don, you may want to go to the last commenatary that I have done–Romans 1:18-21 to this point.

By: Grant

Grant — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:38:34 +0000

Don, what a privilege to have you blog on this site (a wonderful Bible teacher and friend of decades).

Your interpretation is at the heart of this passage.

By: Donald Knapp

Donald Knapp — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:01:05 +0000

The word in question marks is in English transliteration, epiginosko.

By: Donald Knapp

Donald Knapp — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:59:33 +0000

It appears that ????????? has been misunderstood as applying ONLY to believers, and that is the point of confusion, is it not? Even the warning passages in Hebrews 6 & 10 have often been interpreted by well-known seminary professors as referring ONLY to immature believers. This was the pivot point of the battle, NOT the careful interpretive scrutiny of these Scriptures.
After many years of having to “overcome” these erroneous conclusions of some of our teachers, and in light of John 6:66, I have fully convinced the fault was not in whether a believer could lose his salvation and relapse (subject to God’s discipline–sometimes to the point of death), but in underestimating the length to which unregenerated inquirers can progress in their knowledge and understanding of the person and work of Christ, and STILL reject it all by turning their backs on Him when challenged by persecution, hardship or conflicting ideologies.
The confusion, therefore, is not with the Biblical text, BUT WITH OUR PRECONDITIONED ATTITUDES TOWARD IT WITHOUT ADEQUATE EXPOSURE TO WHAT IT ACTUALLY SAYS, knowing that all Scripture is self-consistent and self-authenticating.

By: Grant

Grant — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:54:32 +0000

Brian, Interpretation of any book of the Bible begins with the argument of the book as a whole (See Introduction by going to “Read Introduction to 2 Peter” at the top of each page).

Note the argument from the outline:

I. EXHORTATION TO GROW BASED ON TRUE KNOWLEDGE (1:3-11)

A. God’s provision (1:3-4)

B. Our responsibility (1:5-11)

II. BASIS FOR GROWTH — CERTAINTY OF KNOWLEDGE (1:12-21)

A. Experience of the apostles (1:12-18)

B. Ground for certainty (1:19-21)

III. WARNING AGAINST FALSE KNOWLEDGE (2:1-22)

A. Incursion of false teachers (2:1-3)

B. Judgment of false teachers (2:4-19)

C. Danger of false teachers (2:20-22)

By: brian hollands

brian hollands — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:56:44 +0000

knowledge……2 Pi. 1,3 and knowledge 2 Pi.2,20…… first it applies to christians…..then to false prophets……don’t understand……..these verses that could show a loss of salvation are tough.. heb 6 heb 10 etc……and others…..are we re -interpreting because of a pre-. conveived view……of course …..the loss of salvation people would be doing the sqme thing in reverse……why hasn’t God made it more simple for us….every time I come to a verse like these I have to stop and convince myself…..it isn’t really what the text is saying…..it looks like you lose your salvation…….but we must interpret in light of other texts that we have decided are stronger…..could it be like the predestination and free will arguments….a bit of both are true…. I don’t like the loss of salvation doctrine….but why are these verses confusing the issue…..