The New Testament is indeed God Breathed.
- Maia Vashti
- Apr 9
- 2 min read
Updated: May 8
Not just the Old Testament as some like to argue.
A specific thing from the textbook (anthropology student here. Textbook; Invitation to World Religions) that I thought was incorrect or should have been explained as having other points of view was on p. 460, where the authors talked about “God-breathed” and “divinely inspired” Scripture.
The textbook asserts that the reference made in 2 Timothy 3:16, "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,"
was only talking about the Old Testament, or Jewish scriptures, because the New Testament, or the letters and text written by the apostles, was not yet recognized as Scripture.
I disagree with this statement, and I feel many other Christians would as well because the New Testament works were inspired by the Holy Spirit.
The next sentence in the textbook acknowledges that 2 Peter 1:21 describes the prophets of the Old Testament as being men who “spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.”
This passage follows into the argument of why the New Testament is considered God-breathed, as the apostles and those who believe in Jesus’ resurrection are baptized by the Holy Spirit (NIV, 1973/2011, Acts 2:38–39), therefore receiving the gifts of the Spirit (NIV, 1973/2011, 1 Cor. 12:1–11).
This, along with the events in all of Acts 2, proves to me that the texts of the New Testament are indeed God-breathed, as the writers had the Holy Spirit within them.
Reference:
Brodd, J., Little, L., Nystrom, B., Platzner, R., Shek, R., & Stiles, E. (2021). Invitation to World Religions (4th ed., pp. 475, 492, 494). Oxford University Press Academic US.
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