ALL SCRIPTURE is God-breathed

[tonychanyt]

What did Paul mean by "all Scripture"?

Biblehub lists that Paul wrote his first letter to the Corinthians in 54 AD, 1 Corinthians 2:

13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.

He claimed spirit inspiration. Around this time, he also wrote in 1 Thessalonians 2:

13 we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.

Paul was not shy about claiming the authority of the word of God, and the gospels were written around the same time.

In 67 AD, Paul wrote his last epistle in 2 Timothy 3:

16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,

By "all Scripture", did Paul only have the Old Testament in mind?

Paul had the OT in mind. Moreover, I think he claimed the new scriptural writings produced by him and others were God-breathed as well.

Peter affirmed that in the same year, 67 AD, Peter wrote his last word in 2 Peter 3:

15 Count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, 16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.

Peter respected all of Paul's letters as wisdom from God.

All Scripture, the Old and the New Testaments, is God-breathed.

 

[Vambram]

AMEN and again I say, AMEN

 

[a_ntv]

By "all Scripture", did Paul only have the Old Testament in mind?

Paul had the OT in mind. Moreover, I think he claimed the new scriptural writings produced by him and others were God-breathed as well.

Actually Paul with Scripture had in mind only a portion of the OT: The Pentateuch, the Prophets and the Psalm. In other words the Bible older than the the Exile.
For sure he had not in mind the NT, and surely not the NT books not yet written (such as Gospel of John, Revelation, Hebrews...) when he wrote the statements you highlight

Don't worry, we can be fully Christian also without the Sola Scriptura, a XVI century invention, not supported by the 2/3 of Christians

 

[tonychanyt]

For sure he had not in mind the NT,

verse?

 

[Grip Docility]

What did Paul mean by "all Scripture"?

Biblehub lists that Paul wrote his first letter to the Corinthians in 54 AD, 1 Corinthians 2:


He claimed spirit inspiration. Around this time, he also wrote in 1 Thessalonians 2:


Paul was not shy about claiming the authority of the word of God, and the gospels were written around the same time.

In 67 AD, Paul wrote his last epistle in 2 Timothy 3:


By "all Scripture", did Paul only have the Old Testament in mind?

Paul had the OT in mind. Moreover, I think he claimed the new scriptural writings produced by him and others were God-breathed as well.

Peter affirmed that in the same year, 67 AD, Peter wrote his last word in 2 Peter 3:


Peter respected all of Paul's letters as wisdom from God.

All Scripture, the Old and the New Testaments, is God-breathed.

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