Charles Spurgeon Commentary 2 Peter 3:4

"and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." — 2 Peter 3:4 (ASV)

And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

Only the modern scoffers have tried to improve upon their predecessors, for they say, "All things have developed by evolution from the beginning, which never had a beginning, but which somehow or other has always existed."

Thus the scoffers change their approach, but they never alter their spirit; it is always an attack upon revealed truth.

Indeed, they scarcely seem to believe that there is any revealed truth, and they will only accept what they themselves might have invented.

Despite what these men say, all things have not continued as they were since the beginning of the creation, for there have been great interpositions of divine power in the past, as Peter goes on to show.

And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the father fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

Inviolable laws still govern the material creation. Men are still swift to sin. Oppressors are not overthrown; and, often, the good are left to languish in poverty and suffering. Where is the promise of his coming?