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While having a chat with Henk Wouters this morning, it just dawned on me that when the writer of 2 Timothy 3:16-17 wrote "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work." he was talking of the "bible" canon of his time; AKA the Old Testament.

He was writing a letter and not Scripture in his own view and therefore wouldn't have included all the other letters floating about between the churches.

We now, after the event, have taken all these letters and included it into his known Scripture and these new letters we call the New Testament. All these books are now taken as Scripture and therefore for good.

Wouldn't that be adding to the Word in the strictest sense, something that we have been warned about during that same period of time?

I'm not saying that the New Testament must be rejected, but realize that we should understand it as people's interpretation of Scripture and not Scripture itself. Does that make sense or am I missing the boat completely here?

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A letter is not scripture per se but commentary by the early founders on scripture, which gives you insight into how they think. This becomes important for understanding aspects of the New Testament, as there is a distinct difference between Paul and James and how their paths move through the New Testament.

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I believe that the Torah, the first 5 books of Moses, is where all the laws are. The rest of the Scriptures goes into more detail of historical information or implementation of those laws. For example, Yeshua shows us that we must do more than merely avoid wrong acts, we must avoid the thoughts that lead to wrong acts such as not being angry at a brother without a cause.

Mainstream Christians will take misunderstandings of the Apostle Paul's writing and interpret the entire Bible through Paul. This is the wrong approach because letters are meant to address specific people in specific circumstances which may or may not apply to us.

I'm not sure how to express this, but I think that different parts of the Scriptures have different purposes. The first 5 books of Moses are very important because that is where all the laws are. The Gospels and Acts of the Apostles are also important because it contains the teachings of Yeshua and other historically relevant information. But unless they are addressing specific Torah laws, I think that the letters should be treated as secondary to the Torah and the Gospels.

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We’ll I honestly don’t see a prohibition in Scripture against more Scripture coming with time except in Revelation when it says not to add to that book. That being said, Given the amount of time we’ve had this canon I would not be in favor of adding anything modern to it though.

Plus, what we’ve agreed upon as Scripture is basically just documents we regard as inspired by God and critical for sound doctrine and faith. So we can regard something as being inspired by God but not necessarily something to be canonized for every believer everywhere.

I think everything in our Bible’s today is important and God preserved it for a reason. I’m willing to consider other books mentioned by Scripture too (Enoch, Jasher, etc). But highly discourage believers from going down the trail of “Well I don’t understand this book of the Bible so clearly it’s wrong and I’m right”.

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