Unstable and Unlearned

Catholics tend to group all those who oppose their theology as unstable and unlearned.

In reality it was those who originally started the Catholic group that were unlearned.

The following verse was written at a time when the seeds of Catholic dogma were being planted.

2Pe 3:16  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.

The wresting of the scriptures can be seen in many early Catholic writers. It had already begun when Peter was still alive.

Proto-evangelium of James, for instance, wrote Jesus was born in a cave, and some Catholic art still depicts Jesus in a cave.

Papias also wrote Jesus brothers were really close kinsmen and not actual brothers.

Papias also said he preferred Oral teaching over the written word..

Thus many early writings broke from scripture or redefined it.

The word for wrest is used only once in the New Testament but is used in the sense of torture or stretching, it is to bend or stretch out of shape.

Total KJV occurrences: 1

From a derivative of G4762;

to wrench, that is, (specifically) to torture (by the rack), but only figuratively to pervert: - wrest.streb-lo'-ostrebloō

Such stretching can be seen in Catholic dogmas like.

1. The Papacy.

2. Doctrine of Mary.

3. Celibacy

etc.

All require a redefinition of scripture.

Keep in mind that those originally starting Catholic doctrine were the unlearned and unstable in Peter's day. Those who eventually followed them eventually grew into the Catholic body of today.

Catholics have used the verse to deem many as unstable, and use appointed psychologist to have many incarcerated simply for resisting Catholicism. World-wide thousands in our generation have been incarcerated as unstable by Catholics. Simply by allowing Catholic courts to use psychologists under their powers to testify the person is unstable.