What is the context?
This sentence explains the preceding statement about scriptural prophecy. It contrasts human will as the source of a message with people speaking from God under the Holy Spirit’s direction.
The Greek word behind carried along can describe being moved or prompted. The speakers are human, and the directing action is God’s. Peter offers this as a reason to take the prophetic word seriously.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Calvin and Wesley both emphasize the Spirit’s initiative. Calvin expressly says the speakers did not lose the use of their minds. The Catholic Catechism, 106, likewise describes God working through people who use their human faculties as actual authors. These explanations keep the message’s divine source and its human speakers in view.
Where does this fit in God's plan?
2 Timothy 3:14–17 gives the purpose alongside the source: Scripture makes people wise for salvation through faith in Christ and trains them for lives of good work.
God’s speaking is directed toward a people who know His Son and are equipped to live faithfully. The authority described here supports that saving and forming work.
What is our position?
Our study Is the Bible the Inerrant Word of God? understands this passage as describing Scripture’s origin in God: His Spirit carried the human speakers as they spoke from Him. The study applies inerrancy to the original texts as God inspired them. English translations are human works that must be examined against those texts; this passage does not promise that every translation choice is without error.