Monday, January 09, 2006

A question for the apologists

Hello Droogs!

In the verse: 2 Timothy 3:16, what are the scriptures Paul is referring to?

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2 comments:

Mike G. said...

I have to think the scriptures Paul is speaking of is OT since most of the NT hadn't been written yet. As far as "God-breathed" I think he was refering to the fact that God had an active involvement in the writting of the scriptures eitehr directly (ie ten commandments, speaking to noah, moses, Isaiah, etc) or indirectly (stories of men & women and their folling God)

Mike G. said...

I guess it comes down to how you interpret "God-breathed". Some believe that means that every words in the bible has to be taken at face value and followed exactly how it is written with no room for bending.
The other side says the Bible is left up to interpretation (i.e.. kind of like what Rob bell was saying)
What do I believe? I think you have to look at everything in context. If we all followed Paul's teachings to the strictest of code then we'd all be southern Baptist - ha (no insult intended) What we have throughout 90% of the bible are stories of real people making real life choices and sometimes they turn out good and other times they turn out bad. I'd like to think that if I were around back when all this stuff was written down that my life may be one of those stories that people 5000 years later could learn from. As in what not to do.
Does it effect my beliefs one way or another? No. If all I had was the story of adam & eve and then the accounts of Jesus, I'd get the point pretty clearly and make my life choices based on that. Everything else helps but doesn't define who I am.