The old corrupt world one day will be finished
St. Peter Denying Christ, by Gustave Doré (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) “Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.” ( 2 Peter 3:13 ) The cosmos consists of “all things”—every system, every structure, every organism, every process, everything—in heaven and in Earth . Cosmology is the system and study of the whole cosmos. In his final epistle, the apostle Peter outlines four different cosmologies. One is false; the other three are each true but at different times in history. The false cosmology is that of evolutionary uniformitarianism, the doctrine taught by latter-day intellectuals who will scoff: “Where is the promise of his coming? . . . all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation” ( 2 Peter 3:4 ). But this is altogether wrong! The first cosmos—the heavens and the earth which were “of old . . . the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished” ( 2 Peter 3:5-6 ). The prime