Re:Verse passage – 2 Peter 1:12-15 (day three)
…the laying aside of my earthly dwelling is imminent, as also our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.
Of all people, Peter knew what “laying aside of my earthly dwelling” means, and what it does not mean. If he intends to tell his readers that he’s tossing aside his body in order to “fly away” and live an incorporeal existence, then the message here is that nothing really matters on earth, and — even more shocking — that being human is a flaw, not a feature. But as “Jesus Christ has made clear” by his own resurrection, not only does human life matter on earth, God will double down on it.
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