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Welcome to WikiChristian A encyclopedia and discussion forum for all Christians to share their faith with 350,006 pages and over a million edits. Statement of Faith | Vision Special Links: Bible Referencing | Page Layout & Writing Guide | Senior Editors | WikiChristian Needs Your Help! What is Christianity? Christianity is about God reaching out his hand in friendship to mankind. Christians believe that the whole world and everything in it was created by God. God is a personal being, a living God who is three, yet one: Father, Son and Spirit, just as we human beings have body, mind and soul! (see the Trinity). The Bible says God created people in his image, to love him. Yet every person has rebelled against God and sinned. Yet instead of turning his back on us, God became a man, Jesus, who most scholars believe was born about the year 4 BC and lived among us. He taught a message of love throughout Palestine but public opinion turned against him and he was executed as a young man. He died because of us - the death that we should have died. He was crucified on a cross, but he rose from the dead, and now calls us to trust him, to love him and to repent of our rebellion. If we do this, then we our relationship with God becomes restored and we will live forever with God. Many non-Christians may think that being a Christian is about belonging to a particular church or following a certain set of rule. Most Christians however would agree that at its root, being a Christian means to be in a living relationship with Jesus. Who is God? 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Peter sees the danger of false doctrine in the church and warns the believers to beware (chapter 3:17). In other words, the two letters together emphasize the perils of the church: Satan can come as a lion with persecution (I Peter), or he can come as a serpent with false doctrine (II Peter). We could contrast II Peter 2:20-22, where we have a description of false Christians. They have escaped the pollutions of the world, not the corruptions; that is, they have merely washed on the outside, and have not been changed on the inside. They have a head knowledge of Christ and not a heart-faith. They are not truly saved, for they go back to the old life after awhile. Chapter 2 deals with warnings concerning false teachers. The danger of false teachers is so great that the Holy Spirit used both Peter and Jude to warn us against them! Please keep in mind that a false teacher is not a person who teaches false doctrine out of ignorance. In Acts 18:24-28, we see Apollos teaching false doctrine (the baptism of John ), but he was not a false teacher. Many of the great leaders of the church in centuries past held to doctrines that we believe are not Biblical (infant baptism, union of the church and state, etc.), but we cannot call them false teachers. A false teacher is one who knows the truth, but who deliberately teaches lies that he might promote himself, get financial gain, and be able to live in sin and please himself. He uses deceptive means to twist the Word of God to suit himself. In verses 1-9 Peter explains the condemnation of these false teachers; in verses 10-16 he gives their character; and in verses 17- 22 their claims. Today we live in a day of false teachers. You may detect them by the way they exalt themselves instead of Christ. Whenever you hear someone exalting himself and emphasizing what he has done and his accomplishments--beware. He is a false teacher and his life is full of lust and sin. Today, as Christians, we should not only know the Bible in our lives. God wants us to have balanced lives, learning the Word and living the Word. In I and II Peter this great apostle is admonishing us to grow in grace and knowledge and to live daily, showing forth the life of Christ in our lives. Each of us should know the Bible in our heads, stow it in our hearts, show it in our lives, and sow it in the world! Daily Devotions - Commentary on The Entire Bible in 365 Days