2 Peter 3:1–4 (ESV) — 1 This is now the second letter that I am writing to
you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of
reminder, 2 that you should remember the predictions of the holy
prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, 3 knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days
with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. 4 They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the
fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning
of creation.”
NOTE: Scoffers is
simply another name for a fool. They are not really interested in facts or
answers. They hate God and they only scoff because they think it proves their
superiority over people who believe in God. Scoffers who seriously sought to
know the truth would find the evidence overwhelming, as Lew Wallace and Lee
Strobel did. No, a scoffer is not worth the time. The argument of where is God
and when will God act is very shortsighted. If you are dealing with an infinite
and eternal God, why would he be condemned to act in our timeframe. I believe
that the better questions ought to be the evidence of his existence. Jesus
Christ, through miracles and a witnessed resurrection is an inescapable problem
for the scoffer. The lives of the eyewitnesses to his life do not resemble men
taking advantage of a lie for their own benefits. The life of Jesus and the
accompanying miracles are hard to classify except as who he claimed to be, the
son of God. No, the scoffer is a fool who does not want to know the facts.
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