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Theologian and church historian Catherine Gunsalus González studies three often overlooked books in the New Testament, 1 and 2 Peter and the Letter of Jude. These writings from the late first century or early second century helped guide the young church as it faced a variety of issues, both internal to the church’s life and external in the social and political culture in which it was growing. The...

Israel’s new life was to be shaped by the law that God gave them after their release from bondage, so also these Gentiles have been called out of their bondage under sin and death, and on the basis of what God has already done for them, they are to respond in holiness of life. “Therefore.” With this word a new section of the letter begins, showing that it is tied closely to what went before. Because these Christians have been chosen by God the Father, because by baptism they
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