"As you wait for the day of GOD, and long for its coming, when the heavens will dissolve in fire, and the elements melt away in the heat. We wait for a new heaven and a new earth, in which justice reigns, according to GOD's promise.
Therefore, beloved, as you wait in expectation of this, strive, that GOD may find you rooted in peace, without blemish or fault.
And consider, that GOD's patience is for our salvation, as our beloved brother, Paul, wrote to you, with the wisdom given him. He speaks of these things in all his letters. There are, however, some points in them that are difficult to understand, which people, who are ignorant, and immature in their faith, twist, as they do with the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
So then, dearly beloved, as you have been warned, be careful, lest those people who have gone astray, deceive you, in turn, and drag you along, making you stumble, and finally fall away. Grow in the grace and knowledge of our LORD and Savior JESUS CHRIST: to HIM be glory, now, and to the day of eternity. Amen." - 2 Peter 3:12-18
(In our days the majority of Christians give little thought to the return of CHRIST: because we see it as a long way off, or because we do not understand its meaning? In reality it is always urgent to give ourselves totally.
The paragraph referring to Paul shows that already at that time Paul's letters had the same authority in the Church as the old sacred books or the Gospel, the "rest of Scripture," The Church was also concerned about the wrong interpretations that people might get from passages in which Paul did not express himself clearly.)
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