“1Pe 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has regenerated us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,”
“Blessed” What is blessing? How can we bless God?
“and Father of” Why is God represented as the Father of Jesus? Why is that important? Why were other relationships not used for the comparison?
“our Lord Jesus Christ” Why is Jesus Lord? Why must He be Lord? Was God not enough? What is the point of Lord that other descriptions could not over? What is that value of that emphasis?
And why “our.” If Jesus is God of everything, is He not Lord of everything? So why use the possessive “our” would it not be more accurate to say He is “THE Lord”?
“according to His great mercy” what is the mercy of God? What does that look like and why is it invoked?
“regenerated us” What is regeneration? How is it accomplished? What is the point?
“to a living hope” Thisis the purpose of the regeneration. What is a living hope? What is the hope?How does calling it living make it better? How is a living how different from a normal hope?
“through the resurrection” So the resurrection is serving as the means or mechanism through which the regeneration is being accomplished. Why is the resurrection needed? How come the resurrection is able to regenerate?
“Jesus Christ from the dead” Why did it have to be Jesus? Other people have been raised from the dead, why could their resurrection not accomplish this regeneration? Why could only the resurrection of Jesus pull this stunt off?
1Pe 1:4 to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in Heaven for you
“inheritance” I know what an inheritance means here on earth. What does that mean in the spiritual sense? Why inheritance?
“incorruptible and undefiled, and unfading” This are interesting characteristics. What exactly is this inheritance? We have been regenerated for the purpose of the inheritance. What is it?
“reserved in Heaven” So this inheritance is reserved like a parking space for us. Why must it stay in heaven Why can we not have it down here? Is it not already ours?
1Pe 1:5 by the power of God, having been kept through faith to a salvation ready to berevealed in the last time;
“by the power of God” Why the power of God? Why was the power of God required?
“having been kept” So this reserved parking space inheritance has been inside the vault this whole time? What is the purpose of this ordeal?
“through faith” How does faith add to this thing?What is faith doing in this case?
“to a salvation” Is salvation the inheritance? Or salvation just happening here to?
“ready to be revealed in the last time” Why is it revealed in the last time? Why not reveal it earlier? Why did it have to wait?
1Pe 1:6 in which you greatly rejoice, yet a little while, if need be, grieving in manifold temptations;
“ in which you greatly rejoice” So these people are happy about this whole thing. Why? How is this better than they had?
“yet a little while,if need be” Why the wait? If these people are entitled to this inheritance, why are they not getting it? What is wrong with the mail in this exchange?
“grieving in manifold temptations” Why? Why must these people suffer many temptations? What is the purpose? What are these temptations?
1Pe 1:7 so that the trial of your faith (being much more precious than that of gold that perishes, but being proven through fire)might be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,
“so that the trial of your faith” What is the trail of the faith? Why is it necessary? What does it accomplish? Why must itbe done through the temptations?
“might be found to praise and honor and glory” What is praise? How is this performed in this context? What is honor in this context? How does one of these people honor God? What is glory? What are these things so important? How come they must be cultivated through this process of suffering temptations?
“revelation of Jesus Christ” What is the revelation of Jesus Christ What does that entail? How is He not revealed already? He has a massive religion devoted to Him. How is He not revealed?
1Pe 1:8 whom having not seen, you love; in whom not yet seeing, but believing in Him you exult with unspeakable joy, and having been glorified,
“whom having not seen, you love” How do you love someone you have never seen? I have heard from a lot of people that a long distance relationships never work. How does this one work when you never seethe person? What does loving an invisible dude look like?
“in whom not yet seeing, but believing in Him”Again, how do you believe in a person you have never seen? How do you know you are believing in a real person? How do these person know that this invisible dude in the sky is real? There are a lot of people claiming to be in contact with invisible people in the sky? What make Jesus the real one and not the others? And what does believing mean? What do they think it means?
“you exult” What is exult? Is this good? What does this look like?
“with unspeakable joy” So “exult” can be done with something that is unspeakable? So does that mean exult does not mean talking? What is joy? Was is so “unspeakable” about it?
“and having been glorified” What does “glorified”? Clearly is have already been done. The word is past tense here. So how was this glorification accomplished? What was it done? How are these people’s lives different with this glorification?
1Pe 1:9 obtaining the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
“obtaining the end of your faith” These people have obtained the“end if their faith.” What is the end of their faith?
“salvation of your souls”What is salvation? Why are the souls saved? Is there a reason the other components of the person could not be saved? What is a soul? Is that different from the mind? What makes up a soul?
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