Last year Coca-Cola spent five billion dollars on advertising a drink that started life in 1886 as a cocaine-laced "medicinal tonic" promising to cure headaches and fatigue. Stephen Davey opens 2 Peter with that story of false advertising to introduce an 80-year-old apostle, writing from a Roman prison just weeks from execution, determined to warn the church away from counterfeit gospels. Peter signs his letter with both names, Simeon and Peter, refusing to hide the failure behind the faith, and calls himself not an apostle of stature but a slave, a man with no agenda but his Master's will. Davey unpacks the phrase "Jesus Christ" as the shortest creed in existence: the man is the divine Savior. It's an old fisherman's last plea to hold onto the real thing before it's too late.
The Real Thing!
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