Lets take a couple of “problem texts”:

For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins (Second Peter 1.9)

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction (Second Peter 2.1).

I’m not raising these passages because I want to “explain” them.  Nor because I think they present a true challenge to Reformed Orthodoxy (unconditional monergistic salvation as part of comprehensive absolute fore-ordination etc).

Rather, I just want to point out that any explanation worthy of a Christian must admit that the Holy Spirit was not inspiring Peter to say anything that would mislead people into believing a false doctrine.  Any explanation that makes these passages into rare instances of abnormal speech ends up, as far as I can tell, with an Apostle writing in a way that he knows can only confuse Christians.

Of course, it is not impermissible to paraphrase these statements into other words.  That can be done with all intelligible speech.  What is a mistake is to lead people to believe that other language is appropriate and this language is inappropriate.

Every Scripture is God-breathed.