Bible Verse of the Day Thursday May 18th, 2023

2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

The writing of Paul in his second letter to his protégé Timothy specifies that all scripture was "God-breathed," not only the original Hebrew text. Paul was pointing out that the Apostles' writings (The New Testament) were just as relevant as the Word of God as the original writing from the Prophets of Old (The Old Testament). Paul and the other Apostles' writings were developing as the written structure of the foundations of the Apostles and Prophets as declared and stated in his letter to the Christians at Ephesus (Ephesians 2:20). Paul called on all Christians Churches to read aloud the letters and writings he sent to the various churches in Asia and Europe (Colossians 4:16; 1 Thessalonians 5:27). Paul referred to the papers from himself and the other apostles as the written Word of God (1 Thessalonians 2:13).

This goes beyond saying that God inspired the New Testament Books' writers, although that is what He did. The words that God inspired the New Testament writers to compose. Paul is saying that God breathed every Word that the Apostles wrote. The bequeath from God did not come to the writers themselves but from the scripture. God is connected to His Word in as much as when scripture speaks, God is saying (Galatians 3:8; Romans 9:17),

Some protest and say anyone could compose some book and say it was God's inspired Word. We offer this invitation to these naysayers: Go right ahead and write your book, then claim your writing is the Word of God. Then sit back over the next two centuries and see how it holds up and changes millions, if not billions, of lives. Some believe they have driven the last nail into the Bible's coffin in every generation. The Bible has always been and will always be the solid foundation that has caused many hammers' crumbling and deterioration.

Modern philosophers and academics will claim they are superior in their vast knowledge and education to Galilee's fishermen who walked and talked with Jesus. The world's great thinkers might believe that they could compose some writing that would be superior to what the fishermen that followed Jesus could ever imagine writing. This endeavor would be the epitome of a "fool's errand" because there has never been or will ever be a book that has the power to redirect the lives of untold numbers of people down through the centuries.