1 Peter 3:14b-15 tells the christians facing suffering ?Do not fear what they fear: do not be frightened. But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord' . Here the extremely high christology of identifying Christ with YHWH is useful to 1 Peter's purpose. For the suffering christians addressed in 1 Peter, it is the Christ who is now to be regarded holy and should be viewed as a sanctuary...
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It is not that the Christ has replaced God, the readers are also told to fear God in 2:17, but that Christ is somehow included in YHWH. This uniting of Christ and YHWH is also seen in 1 Peter 2:4-8. Christ is the living stone, rejected but chosen, in verse 4. The writer then uses three passages about stones to interpret one another and Jesus Christ...
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