What happens when unlearned and unstable people twist the Scriptures?
Unlearned and unstable people twist the Scriptures, as they do other Scriptures, and their end result is destruction. This happens when they mishandle difficult passages, such as Paul's epistles, which even Peter admitted were hard to understand. Such twisting leads to their own ruin.
Les explains that Peter, steeped in Judaism and legalism, found it hard to accept that God was no longer dealing with Israel on the covenant promises but was bringing salvation to the whole human race. Even Peter admitted some things in Paul's epistles are hard to understand. The unlearned and unstable, lacking scriptural grounding, twist these difficult passages, as they do the other Scriptures. Their end result is destruction. Peter himself hedged, acknowledging the difficulty, but the unstable distort them to their own ruin.