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Originally Posted by Timmy
So, we might be missing out on some inspired, written words of God?
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No. It's just that in the specific passage cited (
2 Timothy 3:16) the words "all Scriptures" are to be understood in the context of
2 Timothy 3:15-16.
Paul was writing at a specific point in time. When he stated that Timothy had known the Scriptures "from a child" (or from that age when he was a child) there were clearly only the OT scriptures in existence.
Timothy obviously hadn't know the book of 2 Timothy from the time he was a child. Paul was just writing the epistle in Timothy's young adulthood.