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Why this attitude then? You know, when I bring scriptures that I want someone to look at, I bring the scriptures, not just the numbers where they may be found....?
OK, I will post links next time. What version do you favor? (I'm a NRSV guy myself.)
www.ligonier.org
Sister. On the other hand.......did Paul when he confronted Peter with his error, say to him, you "may be" in error, or was he up front and direct about it, calling a spade a spade? We need to have the courage of our convictions. The bible doesn't say we are fluff sharpening fluff, but iron sharpening iron. And how did Jesus confront the error of His day? Aren't we supposed to be like Him? We mustn't let fine-sounding words lead us astray and shut the truth down. The spirit of the world via political correctness has badly infiltrated the church which used to have a backbone, and is destroying it. Just saying.
Is all Scripture is God-breathed because it says so? (That would be circular reasoning, don't you think?)
Amen. It means they are HIS words, not words of men.In 2 Timothy 3:16, Paul states, “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.” This is the only use in the Bible of the Greek word theopneustos, which means “God-breathed, inspired by God, due to the inspiration of God,” but other scriptural passages support the basic premise of Scripture being inspired by God.
The power of the breath of God in divine inspiration pervades Scripture. God breathed “the breath of life” into Adam (Genesis 2:7), and Jesus “breathed on them and said, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit’” (John 20:22). In 2 Peter 1:21 we are told that “prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.” Here we see the truths of Scripture described as coming directly from God, not from the will of the writers He used to record them.
Peter notes that Paul writes “with the wisdom that God gave him” and that failure to take heed to these messages is done at the peril of the readers (2 Peter 3:15–16). Scripture comes from the Holy Spirit, who gives it to us “in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words” (1 Corinthians 2:13). In fact, the Berean believers faithfully used the inspired Word of God to check Paul’s adherence to the Word as they “examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true” (Acts 17:11).
Faith is central to how anyone receives the validity or value of God’s inspired Word because “the man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Corinthians 2:14). The “spiritual man” is the one who has been given the gift of faith (Ephesians 2:8–9) for the salvation of his soul. Hebrews 11:1 tells us, “Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” There is a righteousness in the gospel revealed by God in the Scriptures, but our righteousness comes and is maintained by and through faith alone. “The righteous will live by faith” (Romans 1:17).
Although 2 Timothy 3:16 may be the only place in the Bible where the phrase “God-breathed” is used to describe the Word of God, Scripture is replete with similar claims. These are actually God’s words reminding us that His truth and love can be found there to guide us in all aspects of life. Perhaps James has the final word about the nature of Scripture (and many other things) when he proclaims, “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows” (James 1:17).
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Human beings speak with their mouths as their breath moves across their vocal cords, causing the cords to vibrate and produce sounds that are formed into letters and words by our lips, tongues, and teeth. There is a breathing out that has to take place for speech, and understanding this reality helps us to understand Paul's point in today's passage. Scripture, he tells us, results from God's breathing out in speech. This is a rather clear way of saying that Scripture is the very speech of God. It is His Word.What does it mean that the Bible is God-breathed? | GotQuestions.org
What does it mean that the Bible is God-breathed? What does the Bible say about itself? Why should we care what the Bible says?www.gotquestions.org
The Greek word translated as "breathed out" in 2 Timothy 3:16 is theopneustos, and Scripture is the only thing described as such by the Apostles. Thus, Scripture has a unique character as the voice and words of the Lord. It uniquely serves as God's special revelation, as His inspired and revealed will for His people. Nothing else today is theopneustos, so we can point to nothing but Scripture as the Word of God.
When we speak of Scripture as theopneustos, we are pointing to its divine inspiration. The Word of God written is identical to God's speech. It is exactly what He intended us to have as the revelation of His will and how to please Him. At the same time, this does not take away from the Bible's human character. God breathed out His Word, but He did so through the instrumentality of His prophets and Apostles. So, for example, the book of Romans is Paul's word, bearing the Apostle's unique style and character. Nevertheless, it is also God's Word, given by Him. That our Lord used a man to give us the book of Romans does not in any way make it less than the very speech of God. And this applies to all books of Scripture.
Following 2 Timothy 3:16 and other passages, the Protestant Reformers affirmed verbal plenary inspiration. Verbal inspiration means that inspiration pertains to the very words themselves, not just the meaning that the words convey. If Jesus could appeal to the tense of a verb in order to settle a theological question ("I am the God of . . ."; Matt. 22:23–33), inspiration must apply to specific words and even their specific forms. Plenary inspiration means that all the words of Scripture are given by God, not just some of them. We cannot say that the Lord spoke only the words of Scripture that pertain to doctrine but not those that record history. No, God spoke it all, using the distinct style of each human author to give us His Word for all of life. Paul says all Scripture—everything received as canon—is God's Word, not just select portions of it (2 Tim. 3:16).
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The process of biblical inspiration is mysterious, for we do not know exactly how God moved the human authors of Scripture to give us His Word. Nevertheless, we know that Scripture is the Word of God, and so it can be trusted to give us nothing but the truth of God. When we want to know God's will for us, we must turn to Scripture, for it is there alone that we will find the Lord's guidance.
God-Breathed Scripture | Reformed Bible Studies & Devotionals at Ligonier.org
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For those who have the Spirit of God, the Spirit witnesses the truth to our spirits.
Amen and amen! Because these are His words, many find them offensive and seek to redefine God's Word to fit their own narrative. Let us remember 2 Timothy 4:3-4 (Lexham Bible): "For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths."
There is no co-witnessing of the Spirit to bring to remembrance when the Bible is closed.
This seems contradictory.
Have you checked or is there is any way to find out whether one or the other is the name of Zechariah's FOREfather? Passover does begin the day before so to speak.....at sunset. Could that explain what appears to be an error but might not be? Sometimes things appear to be errors simply due to our own ignorance of the facts.
