To address the current situation in the churches, a situation characterized by moral lawlessness, rebellion against authority, and scoffing at the teaching of the church regarding the coming of the Lord. He wants to leave a record of his teaching for the churches, so 2 Peter serves as a sort of memoir or farewell address for the author. He is also aware of some false teaching in the churches, and he desires to correct those ideas before his death. Fallen angels, Noah, and Sodom and Gomorrah are used to indicate how God has judged the ungodly in the past. The Relationship Between Jude and 2 Peter A. Sections that Show Similarities 1.
Similarities here extend to content and order.
The content concerns God s judgment against rebellion and false teaching. Although one author may have borrowed from the other, the use of distinctive vocabulary and the presence of other differences indicate another possibility. Both authors may have drawn independently from a false teaching tradition, which circulated orally in the churches. This tradition may have been developed to help church leaders fight false teaching and moral carelessness in the daily life of the people of the churches. The Opponents or False Teaching in Jude and 2 Peter 1.