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2 Peter 2:20<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n Truth to Learn<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n True salvation can\u2019t be lost, but mere intellectual salvation can.<\/p>\n Behind the Words<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The word translated \u201ccorruption<\/span>\u201d is the Greek word miasmata<\/span><\/em>. According to Adam Clarke\u2019s Commentary on the Bible, \u201cThe word was anciently used\u2026to express those noxious particles of effluvia proceeding from persons infected with contagious and dangerous diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cKnowing<\/span>\u201d is translated from epign\u014dsis<\/span><\/em>, made up of epi<\/span><\/em>, meaning \u201cabove or over\u201d and gin\u014dsk\u014d<\/span><\/em>, meaning \u201cto have intellectual knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n The word translated \u201centangled<\/span>\u201d is emplek\u014d<\/span><\/em> from which we get our English word implicate. This particular Greek word originally meant \u201cto braid in or to interweave.<\/em>\u201d It later came to mean \u201cto be involved in or to become entangled in.\u201d<\/p>\n Meaning Explained<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n This is one of those verses that, on the surface, appears to imply that it is possible to lose one\u2019s salvation, so let\u2019s look closely at it. Remember that Peter is talking about those people \u201cwho are just escaping from those who live in error,<\/span>\u201d and these false teachers were \u201cpromising them freedom,<\/span>\u201d but instead what these false teachers did was: \u201cby appealing to the lustful desires of sinful human nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n He now says, \u201cIf they have escaped the corruption of the world \u2026<\/span>\u201d What is this corruption that Peter is talking about? It is all the contagious, putrefied slop that is created by sin. Peter does not say that these people had escaped from sin but from the effects of sin in the world. And, he says that these have escaped \u201cby knowing the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.<\/span>\u201d <\/span>It was through intellectual knowledge that these people were able to escape the pollution of the world; it was not by experiencing faith in the Savior. It was head knowledge, not heart knowledge. And through this great knowledge that they had acquired, they were able, in their own strength, to temporarily get away from the corruption and purification of the world system.<\/p>\n But, because they had knowledge instead of faith, they \u201care again entangled in it and overcome.<\/span>\u201d And Peter says that their state is now worse than it was before they had escaped. They have now been convinced that their sins are okay and that there is no need for repentance. Even their great intellectual knowledge is not able to save them now (and, in fact, it wasn\u2019t able to save them in the first place). These people have not just returned to their former sins in a casual manner, they are now totally entangled in them.<\/p>\n The point is not that one can lose one\u2019s salvation; rather, it is that salvation through human efforts is not salvation at all.<\/p>\n Application<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n No matter how much you know about the Bible and no matter how much you deny your own desires and sinfulness, you cannot be saved apart from submission to God Almighty, confessing (agreeing with God regarding) your sinfulness and accepting the blood of Christ to cleanse you from your sins.<\/p>\n In God\u2019s service, for His glory,<\/strong><\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2009 Will Krause. 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