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At II Timothy 3:16-17 “ All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.” There is no scripture that says that “All 66 books are inspired”. Indeed after the last Bible writer John was finished writing, Bible translators and printers such as Robert Etienne would later divide existing books such as First and Second Samuel and First and Second Kings. There then were more books than when the apostles lived. Same material, just broken down differently. Good morning jacfar.
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The verse you need is the one that Perryman quoted 2 Timothy 3:16-17 “ All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.” As to what books consitute "scripture", that is fairly easy to work out. 1)what Jesus acknowledges (the Old Testament- he mentions the Law and the Prophets, he quotes copiously from various prophets like Joel, and from Psalm 22 on the cross) 2)what the apostles acknowledge (and they quote copiously from the Old Testament as well) 2)what the apostles, acknowledge about each other eg Peter acknowledges the writings of Paul as Scripture 2 Peter 3:16 He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.) 4)what is known to have been in use while the apostles were still alive, and which, had they opposed them, would not have been used by early Christians. Chief amongst the early Christian writers, and student of John and (I think) Peter, was Clement of Rome, who quotes from almost every New Testament book. ANother early Christian writer was Polycarp of Smyrna, another student of John, who also quoted from many of the NT books. From the letters of Clement, Polycarp, Ignatius of Antioch and Iranaeus of Lyon, some of the earliest Christian writers outside of the apostles, we can reconstruct almost the entire NT.
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If you ever find one you may know by its presence there that the Bible has been changed by men, for the 66 books of the Bible were written long before they were combined in on cover as the Bible, and none of them, therefore, can refer to the Bible as a whole, or all 66 books. It simply did not exist and had not been conceived of when they were written.
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By its prophecies it is even yet in advance of our day. It always remains “inspired of God,”2 Tim 3:16-17 and so is always right, correct, even in this nuclear, space age, this Brain Age in which men are in some ways using the brains that the God of the Bible gave them. No, we do not need to change our textbook of instruction. What we need to do is obey the command to teach it, for it is the “word of God.” In this we can imitate our Model Teacher, Jesus Christ, and also his twelve apostles.. Today we have to teach surrounded by religious clergymen who tickle the ears of their church flocks with things the people like to hear, to please them and draw a salary from them. That is as Paul wrote Timothy that it would be, saying: “For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories.” (2 Tim. 4:3, 4) “The inspired utterance says definitely that in later periods of time some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to misleading inspired utterances and teachings of demons, by the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, marked in their conscience as with a branding iron; forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be partaken of with thanksgiving by those who have faith and accurately know the truth. By giving these advices to the brothers you will be a fine minister of Christ Jesus, one nourished with the words of the faith and of the fine teaching which you have followed closely. But turn down the false stories which violate what is holy and which old women tell.”—1 Tim. 4:1-3, 6, 7. Faced with such a situation, we have to check, not only what those clergymen of Christendom teach by making a comparison with our copies of the Holy Bible, but also what we ourselves teach, that we may be always Scriptural. We sincerely have no desire to become untruthful, mentally diseased, spiritually diseased and really antichristian as teachers. So from God’s inspired Word we must teach ourselves as well as others, thus ourselves following what we teach others to follow. As we study the Bible as students or pupils of God, there is an enlightening force that we require. It is God’s holy spirit. The Bible was produced by inspiration of God’s spirit, and for understanding it we must have the help of that same spirit.
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You cannot. Because a mere 66 books, aren't all of the Holy Scriptures. http://www.thelostbooks.com/
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1) This claim could never have been made. The various books of the Bible were written centuries before the first Bible canon was established. 2) "Biblical inspiration is the doctrine in Christian theology concerned with the divine origin of the Bible and what the Bible teaches about itself." "- Etymology: The word inspiration comes by way of the Latin and the King James c.1303, "immediate influence of God or a god," especially that under which the holy books were written, from O.Fr. inspiration, from L.L. inspirationem (nom. inspiratio), from L. inspiratus, pp. of inspirare "inspire, inflame, blow into," from in-"in" + spirare "to breathe" (see spirit). Inspire in this sense is c.1340, from O.Fr. enspirer, from L. inspirare, a loan-transl. of Gk. pnein in the Bible. General sense of "influence or animate with an idea or purpose" is from 1390. Inspirational is 1839 as "influenced by inspiration;" 1884 as "tending to inspire." found in 2 Tim 3.16-17: "All scripture is given by inspiration of God [theopneustos], and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works." Theopneustos is rendered in the Vulgate with the Latin divinitus inspirata ("divinely breathed into"), but some modern English translations opt for "God-breathed" (NIV) or "breathed out by God" (ESV) and avoid inspiration altogether, since its connotation, unlike its Latin root, leans toward breathing in instead of breathing out. The Church Fathers often referred to writings other than the documents that formed or would form the biblical canon as "inspired." - Basis for the doctrine: The Bible contains many passages in which the authors claim divine inspiration for their message, or report the effects of such inspiration on others. Besides the direct accounts of written revelation, such as Moses receiving the Ten Commandments, the Prophets of the Old Testament frequently claimed that their message was divine by the formula "Thus says the LORD" (for example, 1 Kgs 12:22–24;1 Chr 17:3–4; Jer 35:13; Ezek 2:4; Zech 7:9; etc.). The Second Epistle of Peter claims that "no prophecy of Scripture ... was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit" (2 Pet 1:20–21). In addition, theological conservatives sometimes argue that Biblical inspiration can be corroborated by examining the weight of the Bible's moral teaching and its prophecies about the future and their fulfillment. Others maintain that the authority of the Church and its counsels should carry more or less weight in formulating the doctrine of inspiration. An exception common to all the different views of inspiration is that, although the New Testament Scriptures quote, paraphrase, and refer to other works including other New Testament documents, the Septuagint (the Jewish translation of the Torah into Greek, later books were translated anonymously and later included in the Septuagint), including the Apocrypha, and the Greek writers Aratus, Epimenides, Menander, and perhaps Philo, none of the various views of inspiration teach that these referenced works were also necessarily inspired, though each teaches that the use and application of these other materials is inspired, in some sense. - Views of the doctrine: Those Christians who receive the Bible as authoritative generally think that the Bible is "breathed out by God", because they think that the Bible itself explicitly states this. The text usually quoted to support this belief is the above quote from 2 Timothy 3. However religious liberals dispute that this understanding of the meaning of this passage is correct. Theologian C. H. Dodd wrote that the passage should be rendered differently so that it reads, "Every inspired scripture is also useful..." This translation has been included in the New English Bible and Revised English Bible translations which are accepted by many mainstream Christian denominations. St Jerome's Vulgate translation, one of the best attested early translations of the Bible, uses a similar form of words, and this is a valid interpretation of the Greek. Different groups understand the meaning and details of inspiration in different ways." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_inspiration
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