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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...

so “endurance,” the next virtue in Peter’s list, helps us to handle the latter. Endurance is the ability to “bear up under” (the Greek word, hypomone, comes from two Greek words, “under” and “remain”). The New Testament frequently uses this word to describe the Christian’s ability to remain steadfast in his or her faith in times of trial (see Rom. 5:3–4; 2 Cor. 1:6; 6:4; 2 Thess. 1:4; James 1:3–4; 5:11; 1 Peter 1:6). We are not surprised, then, to find the word in Revelation, as in 13:10: “This calls
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