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Pasa Graphe' Theopneustos Kai Ophelimos (Greek) is one of the most often-repeated passages from the Scriptures, ie, the Bible. The passage appears in the heading of our Facebook page. But what does it say to us in our various tongues? Well, for those of us who speak English, this passage is a bold testimony from the pen of one Paul, a first-century scholar from the Isrealite tribe of Benjamin. It is also a statement steeped in the thelogy of the Biblical narratives. So, Paul wrote to a young ethnic Jew named Timotheus: "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable......"
At the time Paul wrote those words, there was not yet a codex known as the "New Testament." The scrolls of papyrus on which were written the Scriptures are what we call today the "Old Testament." In its immediate and limited interpretation, Paul is saying that the messages in the Old Testament are inspired by God. That being so, who is the man who would say that the record of the flood in Noah's day was simply an allegory, and not an historical account?

Jeremiah

God called Jeremiah to be His prophet when he was just a youth, perhaps 18 to 20 years of age. The messages God gave this young man for the people of Judah were not popular. Time after time, he called the Hebrew nation to repentance. But His calls went unheeded.

Jeremiah warned that because of the unrepented sins of Judah, God was going to allow the nation of Babylon to march against Jerusalem. Jeremiah's words from the Lord made him seem a traitor to his country.

While kings, priests, and prophets were counseling resistance to Babylon, Jeremiah urged everyone to submit to the enemy. For this, he was threatened, thrown into prison, locked in stocks, dropped into a muddy pit without food, assaulted, and finally hauled off to Egypt with a resistance group after Jerusalem was burned in 586 B.C.

Jeremiah's messages are still valuable today because he calls sin by its right name. He shows the way back to God's favor. And Jeremiah pulls aside the curtain and gives God’s faithful ones an encouraging glimpse of a glorious future.