Does all scripture breathed out by God

[Jerry1023]

Is all scripture eqaully God's word,or some part,such as Jesus talking more important,any way i ask this question base on what a very good friend of mine told me,he is an active christian,he told me that solomon wrote,Ecclesiastes 10:19" in a party,a feast is made for laughter;and wine maketh merry:but money answereth all things" he said that money can take someone around the world,but money can't take someone to heaven,he said that God's said" It shall be well with the righteous,what do you think about Ecclesiastes,10:19"

[Willa]

Ecclesiastes was written by Solomon when he was backslidden. It is in the Bible to show a man who has tried to fill his life with women, riches and parties and finds that it leaves his life empty without God. . Eccles. 8:15 says something like it and Luke 12:19 quotes it saying that is what a fool would say. He ends the book saying let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments for that is man's all. For God will bring every work into judgement, including every secret thing, whether good or evil. Eccles 12:13-14.

It is one book that I have wondered why it is in the Bible. It is one book that those who are not born again can understand because it is fleshly. But it does show how low a person can go and how disillusianed they can become without God in their life. Perhaps it is there to show us what not to do.

[rjp34652]

Is all scripture eqaully God's word,or some part,such as Jesus talking more important,any way i ask this question base on what a very good friend of mine told me,he is an active christian,he told me that solomon wrote,Ecclesiastes 10:19" in a party,a feast is made for laughter;and wine maketh merry:but money answereth all things" he said that money can take someone around the world,but money can't take someone to heaven,he said that God's said" It shall be well with the righteous,what do you think about Ecclesiastes,10:19"

 

Your friend was saying that God cannot be bought with a bribe.  On earth money talks, but in heaven it has no voice at all.   Neither does it speak in the grave.

 

God's kindness toward the saved does not include globe trotting vacations, expensive possessions or public fame, but it does include His personal attention.  Those things may come, but they are not foremost upon God's heart.   That which is most important to the Most High is a humble spirit and a heart that is willing to accept those things which belong to God and those things which God has given in love.

 

God doesn't have to give anything to anybody.  Will a man stand up on his legs of flesh (which will fail him in 70 or 80 years) and shake his hand in the face of the Eternal and demand his rights?  Man has no rights with God and man cannot buy favor by any deed of his own.

 

It may work wonders in the halls of government politics*, but it doesn't work in heaven. 

 

What hope then do we have?   Our hope is in unmerited favor.  It's called grace and it's freely given because Christ died on the cross for our sins.

 

We have only to accept Him in the name of Jesus and He will accept us.   Faith in what God has done, not our own deeds, is the Biblical basis for righteousness. 

If you would please God, believe in Him.

 

and that's just me, hollering from the choir loft....

 

(*) The abnormal politics of American government excepted.

[WIP]

2 Tim 3:16     All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

[JohnD]

2 Peter 1:20-21 (NIV)
20 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation.
21 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.

 

2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NIV)
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
17 so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

 

God-breathed is a play on words in that the wind or the breath and the spirit have similar linguistic beginnings in Hebrew and Greek. Ruach in Hebrew and pneuma in Greek.

 

If a passage stumps you (hard to understand) ask the Holy Spirit to show you.

 

John 16:13 (NIV)
13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.

[missmuffet]

Yes,all of scripture is from God.