Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Jude and II Peter (extra credit)

Please read *all* of Jude and II Peter (only four chapters total) and respond to one of the following prompts.  You can do *both* prompts for extra credit, but it's easier for me if you add separate comments for each prompt.

1.  Pick out one verse from Jude and one verse from II Peter that you find particularly interesting, important, or hard to understand, and comment below on what you find interesting, difficult, or important in those verses.

2. Both Jude and II Peter deal with division withing the church, division caused by two different forms of Gnosticism.  I'll be talking about Gnosticism in some detail later in the course.  For now, though, just note how Jude and Peter deal with doctrinal divisions withing the church. 

5 comments:

  1. 1) The verse from II Peter that I find interesting is "You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with error of lawless people and lose your own stability." (II Peter 3:17), and from Jude that I find interesting is, "Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones." (Jude 1:8)
    The reason I find these verses interesting is because in the II Peter verse, it is a good reminder that we shouldn't get so caught up in helping people who aren't good for us, therefore losing sight of ourselves and losing our stability. The verse in Jude is interesting because it mentions all the things bad people will do to potentially lead us astray and make us lose our stability.


    2) Both Jude and Peter deal with the divisions within the church by talking about them, more specifically talking about people within the church that may put up a facade that they are good people, but they will try to corrupt the church and other people by spreading blasphemy.

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  2. In Jude i find Jude 1:10 "Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah." Kind of hard to understand i know that it is dealing with old testament history but this the first time i have heard of the rebellion of korah. Then II Peter 1:16 For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty." Is interesting because it is talking about not trusting in the false idols of the time. But rather being solid in Christ.

    2. I think the Main point of both books. Is to keep there identity in the Gospel and that is quarells between each other is divisive.



    -Austin Dreyer

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  3. 1. Jude
    I think chapter 1:3-16 is very important. Now I realize this takes up half of the book, but I think it's extremely important to get the idea of false teachers into peoples heads. These people don't come with good intentions, and they don't come to help.
    1. 1 Peter
    Chapters 2:1-22 is a good reminder that everyone can be caught lacking when people show up with disguised intentions. He's writing to Peter to make sure he's aware, that there could be people out there ready to spread deceit.
    2. Jude and Peter deal with division in the church through reminders. They state that Paul's writing with good intentions, and people are on the right track. But people need to be reminded that, there are those out there who are ready to destroy their progress, and cause chaos.

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  4. . Jude
    I think chapter 1:3-16 is very important. Now I realize this takes up half of the book, but I think it's extremely important to get the idea of false teachers into peoples heads. These people don't come with good intentions, and they don't come to help.
    1. 1 Peter
    Chapters 2:1-22 is a good reminder that everyone can be caught lacking when people show up with disguised intentions. He's writing to Peter to make sure he's aware, that there could be people out there ready to spread deceit.
    2. Jude and Peter deal with division in the church through reminders. They state that Paul's writing with good intentions, and people are on the right track. But people need to be reminded that, there are those out there who are ready to destroy their progress, and cause chaos.
    -Walker Larson

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  5. 1) Verse in Jude: Jude 1:10
    But these people slander whatever they do not understand, and they are destroyed by those things that, like irrational animals, they know by instinct.
    I find this verse interesting because it talks about how humans revile and slander that which is foreign and unknown. This is true even today with other religions, countries, ethnicities, etc. We are scared of the unknown so we cower in the known despite knowing that it will one day bring about our downfall.

    Verse in II Peter: 2 Peter 3:8-10
    But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day. The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some think of slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish, but all to come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and everything that is done on it will be disclosed.
    This is an important verse because it reassures those waiting for the promise of God to not be put out or caught unawares. We must always be vigilant in our faith because we do not know the day or the hour when Christ will return.


    2) Both Jude and II Peter deal with division within the church by writing reminders and letters to all the disciples and people of Christ so that they do not get discouraged and fall away from God.

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