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 3First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” 5But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water.
To my Young Earth Creationist friends, verse 5 is clear evidence that the earth is young.  Why?  Because Evolutionists do not believe that the earth was formed out of water and by water.  On the other hand, Genesis 1:2 says this about …

Wow.  I have been doing this word study on righteousness for nearly a year and a half, feeling at least in part like it is too much a distraction from Geocreationism to be posted on this blog… yet, perhaps out of laziness (I didn’t want to create another blog), I posted my entire venture through the verses on righteousness on this blog.  Now, I come to the last chapter in the bible that contains the word Righteousness, and I am simply floored.  What floored me?  Here is the last verse on righteousness, 2 Peter 3:13:
13But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness.
It has been so easy …

Peter is writing a message of righteousness, aboudn the opportunity for belief and obedience through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, leading first to goodness and then finally to love.  However, as Peter points out, there are false prophets who come with messages all the time.  They’re easy to dismiss if you refuse to acknowledge any and all messengers regardless of message.  However, true prophets, such as Peter, are obliged to come and deliver their message, because their message is not for storing away secretly.  It is for sharing, for the benefit of all, not only for the benefit of the prophet.  False prophets are of a different ilk, spreadking messages only for their own good, and should be guarded against.  But, …

In 2 Peter 1, Peter emphatically urges people to act on what they know of Christ and God, lest they backslide.  Not all Christians will backslide, but you do not know for sure if you are one of the them who will, and because a man can backslide to the point of abandoning all hope in God, a point at which you would willfully step away from God’s election, you must therefore do all you can to not become one of them.  Of course, backsliding does not surely result in abandonding your salvation, but it potentially does.  You may even be sure that you would never walk away, but then what of your witness to others?  And frankly, why take that chance? And taking chances aside, just look at …

I find it interesting that the last Biblical book on righteousness would amount to a treatise on righteousness.  Just in the first 10 verses (2 Peter 1 - From righteousness to righteousness: Re-created in God’s Image, 2 Peter 1: Righteousness Leads to Christ’s Love Manifested in You), we have seen confirmation of the following:

Jesus is righteous, and through Him we receive righteousness (v. 1)
Jesus provides us promises that we should believe (v. 4), and of course belieiving is accounted to us righteousness
We are to love others in obedience (vv. 5-8)
Lack of obedience …

In 2 Peter 1 - From righteousness to righteousness: Re-created in God’s Image I wrote,
When accused of wrong-doing, Christ said nothing to His accusers.  Having established for the scriptures that the judgements of evil-doers has no weight, He refused to take a defensive stand against them.  Though making it appear like He was legitimizing their judgement, it is defending Himself in their court that would have legitimized their right to make such judgement over Him.  He simply yielded to show the extent to which He would go for the love of His sheep, letting sinners follow through on their sin so that He could follow …