Several heart attitudes make a big difference when seeking to understand, especially regarding harder parts of the Bible. Some puzzle pieces emerge quickly and clearly, while others pieces take longer to put together. As I mentioned in one of our earlier devotions, I like to think of it as a puzzle.
I am going to do my best to interpret a passage from the Bible that confused Martin Luther, the great theologian. They weren’t sitting around their dorm rooms debating 1 Peter 3:19-21. Our students were way more concerned with how they could stop looking at porn, what to do when they got their girlfriends pregnant, how to stop smoking pot, and how to overcome the shame from their past. The church we started was reaching college students primarily. Then I got married, had a kid, and planted a church. I was like this for a little while, maybe two years. Some like to hotly debate what the original Greek words mean and the various theological explanations for these passages of Scripture which have been debated for thousands of years. Some people get tripped up on Bible passages that are hard to understand - like this one. Before I jump into the text, I’m going to take off my student hat and put my pastor hat back on. I feel like I’m back in seminary trying to make enough sense of what I’m learning to pass the class. I’ve read and absorbed and studied until I have smoke coming out of my ears.
I’ve read through all of them regarding this particular passage.
We are going to dive into a passage Martin Luther labeled as “a more obscure passage perhaps than any other in the New Testament, so that I do not know for a certainty just what Peter means” (Luther, Commentary on Peter & Jude, 166).Ĭurrently, I have four commentaries open in front of me on my desk. Welcome! Today is going to be a fun day for us.
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