Willingly Ignorant

Saturday, October 6, 2018

“And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the Fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.” (2 Peter 3:4-6) Peter told about scoffers (3:3) who expressed their disbelief in Christ’s second coming and argued that cataclysmic judgments on earth have never occurred, but rather all things will continue the same forever. Peter said they were “willingly ignorant”. (3:5) Peter reminds them how God judged the world in Noah’s day with a great flood. (Genesis 6) People then and today are ignorant because they wish to be ignorant.

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