Jude is one chapter, 25 verses, and you can read the whole thing in about three minutes — but the backstory behind who wrote it and why has occupied serious scholars for 2,000 years. Before we start walking through it verse by verse, I wanted to lay out the full picture: who tradition says wrote it, what the earliest church fathers believed, and what the letter itself actually claims.Jude, Not Judas. English translators renamed him Jude specifically to avoid confusion with Judas Iscariot. He identifies himself simply as “a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James” — and that James is almost certainly the head of the Jerusalem church, the same one Paul calls a pillar in Galatians.The Skeptic Who Became a Servant. In the Protestant view, this also makes Jude a brother of Jesus — yet he never claims that title for himself, despite the obvious credibility boost it would have given him. Jesus’ own family were skeptics of His ministry until after the resurrection (John 7:5 makes that explicit). Somewhere between the resurrection and Pentecost, that changed.The Case for Authenticity. I walk through why this letter being attributed to Jude actually argues for its genuineness rather than against it — nobody forging a letter picks an obscure brother of James as the author when Peter or John would have carried far more weight. The letter’s Semitic-flavored Greek, its early acceptance in the Muratorian Canon (around 170 AD, only about 80 years after John’s death), and its endorsement by major second- and third-century voices like Origen and Tertullian all point the same direction.The Enoch Question. The biggest objection people raise is that Jude quotes the non-canonical book of 1 Enoch. I explain why that’s not actually disqualifying — Paul quotes Greek poets in Acts 17 and Titus 1 without elevating them to inspired status, and there are several other lost or non-canonical texts referenced elsewhere in Scripture.Why He Wrote It — and Why It Got Urgent. Jude says outright that this wasn’t the letter he originally intended to write. He set out to write about shared salvation and instead had to pivot to contend for the faith because certain people had infiltrated the community, twisting grace into a license to sin and denying Christ as Master and Lord. I cover his three illustrations (the Exodus generation, the rebellious angels, Sodom and Gomorrah) and his vivid, original imagery describing the false teachers — fourteen words, by the way, that don’t appear anywhere else in the New Testament.Next time, we start the letter itself, verse by verse, in The Bible in Small Steps.Download blank templates, schedules here:https://schmern2.notion.site/Downloads-Template-Word-and-Excel-Schedule-67439d14449d4c20bfe00efe069f78b8Logos RAMPS Workflow - RAMPS Bible Study - The Bible in Small Steps in Logos WorkflowsJill’s Linkshttps://jillfromthenorthwoods.com/https://www.youtube.com/@smallstepswithgodhttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/smallstepspodhttps://twitter.com/schmernEmail the podcast at jill@startwithsmallsteps.com“Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated in whole or in part into any other language.”Scripture quotations marked CSB have been taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.“The Scriptures quoted are from the NET Bible® http://netbible.com copyright ©1996, 2019 used with permission from Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. All rights reserved”.Bible Maps and images used with permission from https://www.bible.ca/maps/ or https://www.freebibleimages.org/illustrations/bj-ot-world/Copyright 2014 Faithlife / Logos Bible Software. Free for non-commercial use by individuals or organizations. May be presented before live audiences; may be posted on social media; may be re-distributed. May not be used commercially. May not be modified or included in published works without permission; contact permissions@faithlife.com. Attribute as: “Copyright 2014 Faithlife / Logos Bible Software ()”.By choosing to watch this video or listen to this podcast, you acknowledge that you are doing so of your own free will. The content shared here reflects personal study, faith perspective, and opinions and is intended for informational and inspirational purposes only. I am not a licensed pastor, seminary-trained theologian, or biblical scholar. Any scriptural interpretation, commentary, or reflections offered should not be considered a substitute for guidance from your own pastor, church body, or faith community. Theological understanding is a ...
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