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Originally Posted by aron
Prophetic words versus natural words.
"All scripture is God-breathed", or just some of it?
Well, when Peter said, "Not so, Lord; this will never happen to You" and Jesus said, "Get behind Me, Satan", we can be pretty clear that "Not so, Lord" was not given to Peter from the Father. Or when Job's wife told him to "curse God and die" after he'd been stricken with multitudes of woes, that statement also probably wasn't inspired by the Holy Ghost. Probably Job's wife is speaking from her "fallen concepts." She is being "natural" at that point.
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In his 2nd letter to Timothy, his last writing before his martyrdom, Paul said that "
All scripture is God-breathed." I personally think that Paul wrote this specifically to address one of the many contentious topics of their day. Paul made it perfectly clear when he said "
all." Then he went on to say that "
all" scripture was "
profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness."
The misinformed might look at Peter's outburst, "
Not so, Lord; this will never happen to You," and say that this could never be
"God-breathed." But look at how much we can learn from Peter blunder. For centuries, Bible readers have been instructed by this short exchange. I wonder how many times the children of God have been stopped by the indwelling Spirit while minding "
the things of man, and not the things of God?" Who are we to say which words of scripture are inspired by God and which words are merely fallen human sentiment?
After my regeneration, one of the first verses to become alive to me was I Cor 2.14, "
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."
Witness Lee, in his latter years of "crystalization-study," looked at many Psalms and the book of James as did a "
natural man." He claimed these books were "short of the divine revelation," considering them a kind of "foolishness," and beneath his own self-imposed standard of "God's Economy." Actually he just could not "
know them" because they were "
spiritually discerned." As many have posted in the past, the writings of Psalms and James were more needed in the Recovery than perhaps any other book of the Bible.