That is not at all what it says...but if you think so....go right ahead.The correct understanding is that the prophecy given in the Bible is not discernable in two ways. Its not mistakable.
If you propose a contrary interpretation to another, one of you is wrong, if not both.
The rest of what you said is a given..
Here's a tool for you to get what the passage actually says...if you're interested:
BLB - 2Pe 1: Peter's Second Epistle - 2 Peter 1 (Blue Letter Bible: NASB - New American Standard Bible)
Look it up in any translation you like...but the point it makes is that those who wrote scripture were moved by the Holy Spirit to do so...they didn't write what they thought or believed, but what the Holy Spirit moved them to write.
This is from Commentary Critical On The whole Bible on the passage:
Verse 20
Forasmuch as ye know this (1 Peter 1:18).
first the foremost consideration in studying the word of prophecy. Laying it down as a first principle never to be lost sight of.
is Greek, not the simple verb, to be, but to begin to be, proves to be, becometh. No prophecy is found to be the result of private (the mere individual writers uninspired) interpretation (solution), and so origination. The Greek noun {(epilusis}, does not mean in itself origination; but that which the sacred writer could not always fully interpret, though being the speaker or writer (as 1 Peter 1:10-12 implies), was plainly not of his own, but of Gods disclosure, origination, and inspiration, as Peter proceeds to add, But holy men spake (and afterwards wrote) moved by the Holy Ghost: a reason why ye should give all heed to it. The parallelism to 2 Peter 1:16 shows that private interpretation, contrasted with moved by the Holy Ghost, here answers to fables devised by (human) wisdom, contrasted with we were eye-witnesses of His majesty, as attested by the voice from God. The words of the prophetical (and so of all) Scripture writers were not mere words of the individuals, and therefore to be interpreted by them, but of the Holy Ghost by whom they were moved. Private is explained, 2 Peter 1:21, by the will of man (namely, the individual writer). In a secondary sense the text teaches also, as the word is the Holy Spirits, it cannot be interpreted by its readers (any more than by its writers) by their mere private human powers, but by the teaching of the Holy Ghost (John 16:14). He who )is the author of Scripture is its supreme interpreter [Gerhard]. Alford translates, springs not out of human interpretation, that is, is not a prognostication made by a man knowing what he means when he utters it, but, etc. (John 11:49-52). Rightly: except that the verb is rather, doth become, or prove to be. It not being of private interpretation, you must give heed to it, looking for the Spirits illumination in your hearts (compare Note, see on 2 Peter 1:19).
Verse 21
came not in old time rather, was never at any time borne (to us).
by the will of man alone. Jeremiah 23:26, prophets of the deceit of their own heart. Compare 2 Peter 3:5, willingly.
holy One oldest manuscript has, men FROM God: the emissaries from God. Holy, if read, will mean because they had the Holy Spirit.
moved Greek, borne (along) as by a mighty wind: Acts 2:2, rushing (the same Greek) wind: rapt out of themselves: still not in fanatical excitement (1 Corinthians 14:32). The Hebrew {(nabi}, prophet, meant an announcer or interpreter of God: he, as Gods spokesman, interpreted not his own private will or thought, but Gods Man of the Spirit (Hosea 9:7, Margin). Thou testifiedst by Thy Spirit in Thy prophets. Seer, on the other hand, refers to the mode of receiving the communications from God, rather than to the utterance of them to others. Spake implies that, both in its original oral announcement, and now even when in writing, it has been always, and is, the living voice of God speaking to us through His inspired servants. Greek, borne (along) forms a beautiful antithesis to was borne. They were passive, rather than active instruments. The Old Testament prophets primarily, but including also all the inspired penmen, whether of the New or Old Testament (2 Peter 3:2).
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