2 Peter 1:16 (KJV)
For we have
not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power
and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
I take it that people even
then (though some today claim they were all ignorant and superstitious)
recognized that there were some cunningly devised fables existing in their day.
- The fable of
polytheism
- The fable of
pantheism
- The fable of Apotheosis (worshiping kings
and sovereigns)
- The fable of
ancestor worship
These and many others were in
full swing in the times of Peter’s writing. That he would say the faith of
Christianity is not a cunningly devised fable assumes that his readers could
have identified many of them.
Something that is cunningly
devised is not innocent. It is malicious. It is schemed to deceive and to
damage those who swallow it. It is meticulously formulated for the purpose of
luring people into it. It is false It is of the devil.
The faith of the Christian is
the opposite of all that is cunningly devised.
- It is honest, coming
from eyewitnesses
- It is heavenly,
pleasing to God the Father
- It is sure,
delivered to us from men of God
2 Peter 1:16 (KJV) Cunningly Devised Fables
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