1 Peter - General
1 Peter 1:2 - We are all, according to Peter, predestined to be saved or damned. We have no say in the matter.
1 Peter 1:5,7,20 - Peter wrongly believed that he was living in the "last times."
1 Peter 1:17 - Peter says that God respects no one, but other Bible verses say otherwise (Gen.4:4, Ex.2:25, Lev.26:9, 2 Kg.13:23, Ps.138:6).
1 Peter 1:17 - Peter says that we will be judged by our works, but Paul disagrees (Rom.3:20, 28, 4:4-6; Gal.2:16; Eph.2:8-9).
1 Peter 2:13 - In this verse Peter says we should obey "every ordinance of man," but in Acts 5:29 he says "We ought to obey God rather than men."
1 Peter 2:18 - Peter says that all slaves should "be subject to [their] masters with all fear," to the bad and cruel as well as the "good and gentle." But Jesus said we should have no masters except him (Mt.4:10, 23:10).
1 Peter 3:1 - Peter order all wives to be "in subjection" to their husbands.
1 Peter 3:2-6 - Wives are to use "chaste conversation, coupled with fear." They are not to braid their hair, wear gold, or put on any "apparel." They are to do these things in imitation of the "holy" women of the Old testament who were "in subjection to their won husbands: even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord."
1 Peter 3:7 - In relation to her husband, the wife is "the weaker vessel."
1 Peter 3:15 - Peter says that Christians should be ready to explain why they believe what they do. This is a good verse to remember when Christians refuse to debate you.
1 Peter 4:7, 13 - Peter mistakenly believes that "the end of all things is at hand."
1 Peter 4:19 - God wants some people to suffer.
1 Peter 5:4 - Peter believes that Jesus will return soon.
1 Peter 5:8 - The devil is like a lion who wanders around looking for people to eat.
2 Peter - General
2 Peter 2:1-3 - The basic message of Christianity is "believe or be damned" and from this flows intolerance toward all non-Christians. But, as these verses show, Christian intolerance is often directed toward believers as well. Each group of Christians accuses the others of being "false teachers" of "damnable heresies" who will soon be damned to hell.
2 Peter 2:4 - The "angels that sinned" are the sons of God that had sex with human females to produce a race of giants. (See Gen.6:4)
2 Peter 2:5 - God drowned everyone on earth except for Noah [the first drunken "preacher of righteousness" (see Gen.9:20)] and his family.
2 Peter 2:8 - This verse describes Lot, who in Gen.19:8 offers his two virgin daughters to a crowd of angel rappers and later (19:30-38) impregnates them, as a "righteous man." But according to many Bible verses, there never has been a righteous man.
2 Peter 2:16 - The author actually believes the story in Numbers 22:28-30 about the talking ass.
2 Peter 3:4 - Peter is aware of the failed expectations of early believers. He knows that Jesus, who was to come soon, didn't come at all. Many have begun to ask, "Where is the promise of his coming?" He tries to cover for Jesus by claiming that "one day with the Lord is as a thousand years."
2 Peter 3:13 - There will be "a new earth," but Ecclesiastes 1:4, 9 says that the "earth abideth forever," and "there is no new thing under the sun."
2 Peter 3:16 - Paul's epistles are hard to understand. And that those who try to understand them, as with the other scriptures, do so "unto their own destruction."
