What happens to those who twist the Scriptures?
The unlearned and unstable twist the Scriptures, as they do also the other Scriptures, and their end result is their own destruction. Such people become masters at twisting, and this is where cults arise; their final outcome is their own destruction.
Les explains that Peter is writing about the beloved brother Paul's epistles, which run from Romans through Hebrews. Peter acknowledges that in Paul's epistles there are some things hard to be understood, and he himself struggled to comprehend that God would save a multitude of Gentiles without the Jews. Les points out that unlearned and unstable people twist Paul's epistles, just as they twist the other Scriptures. He says such people become masters at twisting, and that is where cults come in. Their end result, he says, is their own destruction—hard language.
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
More Questions
Who twists the Scriptures, and how often does it happen?
Those who are unlearned and unstable rest or twist the Scriptures, and this twisting happens every day.
Who twists the Scriptures, according to 2 Peter 3:16?
The 'unlearned and unstable' are the ones who twist the Scriptures, as they do also the other Scriptures.