When Paul said that ‘all scripture is inspired’ (2 Timothy 3:16, NASV) what did he mean? Last week I looked at the issue of which biblical books he could be referring to and concluded that it was the books of the Old Testament alone he had in mind. In this post I want to look at the word ‘inspired’.

God-breathed

The Greek word here is ‘theopneustos’ – literally ‘God-breathed’. (Interestingly the NIV uses this translation rather than ‘inspired’.) Nowhere else in the NT does...

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