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The apostles Peter and Jude wouldn’t have made good postmodernists. They insist that there is such a thing as absolute, non-negotiable truth, as well as error and deception. They speak of false doctrines and those who teach them as if they actually believe that eternity hangs in the balance and that God, far from shrugging his shoulders like a good relativist, takes the matters of truth and...

The Bible makes clear that our ultimate separation from “corruption” (phthora) will come only with the resurrection of the body. Peter uses the word in this eschatological sense in 2 Peter 2:10; and this may be what he means by the phrase “escape the corruption in the world.”9 But the reference to “evil desires” at the end of the verse, along with Peter’s focus on godliness in this passage, suggests rather that escaping corruption has to do with the renouncing of sin in this life.10 Note that Peter
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