The Role of Scripture in the Christian Community

All scripture is God breathing, life-giving, salvific, and profitable for teaching. Paul says that even the Old Testament scriptures can instruct Timothy to salvation in Christ because every scripture is spiritually life-giving. Theeopnoustos cannot have one meaning for the individual books of the Bible, like they're helpful,. It's the soul and fallible rule of faith, in this one usage of the word in a single verse. Christians also say that because scripture is breathed out by God for us, it will contain everything God wants the church to know for faith and practice.