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Originally Posted by OBW
Neither Jude's nor Paul's quotes of non-scriptural sources negate existing scripture.
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And nowhere did Paul or Jude or any of the speakers and writers of the NT say that some scripture wasn't written according to the spirit but according to the fall, i.e. according to the poisonous tree of knowledge of good and evil. Nowhere.
Yes the law brought death but not because the law (or the psalms, or the prophets) was tainted by the fall. The law and the prophets and psalms rather: 1) temporarily shepherded and guided humanity until the light could come; 2) was continually held in the NT as itself prophetically pointing to the coming light. Nowhere does NT eisegesis say that it contravened the light. Nowhere.
The scripture is neither vain words nor fallen human concepts - rather it points us to the Christ. In this, NT reception of scripture is consistent.