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Direct Answer The transcript suggests God expects humility because even first-century believers could misunderstand Paul; Peter’s warning confronts modern certainty by showing that twisting Scripture is possible—even for people much closer to the language and culture than we are.

Support from Transcript:

• Peter says in Paul’s letters are “some things hard to understand,” which “the untaught and unstable twist to their own destruction.”
• Bercot stresses Peter wrote to people who spoke Greek fluently and shared Paul’s cultural setting—yet difficulty remained.
• He challenges us: “Yet we who live nearly 2,000 years later…act as though it were impossible that we may be misunderstanding.”
• He notes Peter does not specify what the false teachers taught, leaving open that they could resemble modern interpretations.
• He connects the issue to widespread deceivers at the end of the first century—“the Gnostics”—who had interpretations similar to modern “Bible-believing” churches.