Paul starts this letter out again referring to Timothy as his son, because Paul had a lot of ideas as to his authority within this brand new religion. And the fact that I’m reading this now twenty centuries later means he was right. So good for him.
He tells Timothy not to be shy about being a follower of the Christian faith. This was back when shit like that would get you killed pretty much wherever you lived, so that’s kind of a tall order. He complains a little bit about how a few of his disciples have abandoned him. They probably did so because he’s an asshole.
He continues to encourage Timothy to keep being a good solid follower and lists off a few of the many ways he’s been fucked with.
He tells Timothy to try and encourage everyone not to be regular people and have disagreements or want and enjoy things around them. He tells them to only focus on god and Jesus and only talk about that and only listen to his idea of how they should live. He talks about the church like it’s a house and says that some people are gold and silver, but other people are wood and clay.
He starts talking about what the world is going to be like in the end of days. He says that people are going to love their own pleasure and they’re going to go around doing whatever the hell they want to. He says that people are going to be fucking women who don’t know any better than to worship god instead of letting them. Side note: This doesn’t really seem like it’s the end of days as much as how the world has worked since humans have existed.
Anyways, He ends by telling Timothy to stay strong and not let all the bullshit around him distract him from the good clean life of a Christian leader. Then he talks a bunch about their mutual friends. I’m not sure why they included this part.
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