This past week marked the 50th Anniversary of Apollo XI – the first landing on the moon. It was an amazing feat – still considered one of the most remarkable human accomplishments of all time. The average layman (me included) can’t comprehend the mathematics, the engineering, the calculations that were necessary to pull that off, but one statistic has always impressed me. If one of the rockets had burned just one second too long, Apollo XI would head into oblivion. Precision was critical.
We are entering into a study of II Peter. A major part of what Peter has to say concerns doctrinal accuracy – theological precision. False teaching doesn’t have to be off by much to eventually make a big difference – a destructive difference. In time, a small error can turn into a large deviation. Peter wants to help us avoid that in his second letter.