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NASB | 2 Peter 3:16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Peter 3:16 speaking about these things as he does in all of his letters. In which there are some things that are difficult to understand, which the untaught and unstable [who have fallen into error] twist and misinterpret, just as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. |
Bible Question: are you saying the cambridge dictionary nows what the scriptures are and jesus does not?My friend there is a distinction between the scriptures and writings of Paul,peter,john,luke,mark,acts,and so on are writings ,again which are inspired!But they are not the scriptures.Read John 5:39 again.At that time Matthew through Revelation were not written yet!My friend that is why when hanging on the cross he said "it is finished".Meaning everything said by the Law and prophets concerning himself was done!Luke 24:44..also read Hebrews 9:16,17...No is saying these writings are not inspired or belitttling them in any way.Simple and plain jesus talking to the pharisees said."you search the scriptures looking for eternal life,but they testify of me."Read Luke the 4th chapter 17:21.as a matter of fact paul called jesus the "true gospel".Paul knew he never equated his writings as the scriptures.but they were most definetly inspired! |
Bible Answer: Hi JMSCOTT I believe you have a misunderstanding of the meaning of the word "inspired". It appears you are saying that inspiration is no more than getting an idea of what needs to be written. Whereas NT usage indicates that the letters, etc. are just as surely God's words as if He had spoken them aloud, thus making the NT equal in weight to anything spoken of in the OT. The difference you are trying to make by saying only the OT is "Scripture" is destructive. It inimates that Paul, Peter, John, et al were just writing words that have no purpose except to be suggestions we could toss away if we so desired. Please reconsider your thinking. Steve |