good job The Bible is the most reliable book in antiquity.
2 Timothy 3:16-17
All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching ,rebuking,correcting and training in righteousness so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work
Now think of this scripture.Pause.....You ponder deeply.What does it mean? How do you interpret it?Be careful -there are a million intepretations of a scripture( the mind twists reality) but only one is true.
It means:
a-All ( and i mean every single one) Sripture is insipred by God,the creator of everything.
b-It is to be applied to our lives, in our relationships.
What else can you add?
c-Scripture is meant to help in accomplishing good works.
Hebrews 4:12-13
For the word of God is living and active.Sharper than any double-edged sword,it penetrates even to deviding soul and spirit ,joints and marrow;it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.NOTHING IN ALL CREATION is hidden from God's sight .Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
Now i may imagine how you feel :YOU probably feel astonished, scared, surprised or even stupefied.Or just laid back. When i first read this scripture i was puzzled and surprised that actually God was seeing every single thing i was doing and hearing every single thought i was thinking. THAT threw me off-God sees everything.
a-The word is relevant
b-The word cuts(hurts) -compare it to a scalpel .It hurts, it takes out the layers and hurts.
c-but it is good to be cut because it cuts the 'cancer' (sin) out.
He always tries to get to our hearts and cut the bad things out.
2Peter 1:20-21
Above all ,you MUST ( not may ) understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation.For prophecy NEVER had its origin in the will of man ,but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Can you guess what this scripture REALLY mean? It's pretty straightforward.In fact the Bible itself is pretty simple and straightforward.What it says it's what it means.
a- Keep in mind that it says -THERE'S NO PRIVATE INTERPRETATIONS OF THE BIBLE.
There's only one interpretation of the Bible-and that is God's .The other interpretations people do are false and twisted.
b-And the 2nd important thing is that the Holy Spirit inspired the men who wrote the books of the Bible.It was written over along period of time after Jesus' death ,in different times and different locations( Thessalonia- Greece, Rome(Italy),in prison by Paul, Corinth ect) and the authors of the Bible were 40 poeple altogether.( some were desciples ,some friends of the desciples ) and what's amazing of all that makes the Bible be so special is that even though these authors were so different,the palces and times were so different they were unified,they talked about one and only thing. What are the chances, some strangers that probably never met, can write about the glory of God unless they had the same Spirit inside them.(the Holy Spirit)