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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?

John

The Gospel according to John was written near the end of the first century A.D. It’s a beautiful supplement to the first three books of the New Testament.

For example, The book of John provides us with considerable information about Christ’s ministry in Judea. The first three, or synoptic, Gospels say very little about Jesus’ work in Judea. John includes none of the synoptic parables, but recounts several controversial discourses Jesus presented in the Temple at Jerusalem. This Gospel also includes several of Jesus’ miracles that are recorded nowhere else in Scripture.

Another interesting feature of John’s Gospel is the attention that’s given to the symbols Christ used in His teaching—water, bread, light, sheep, the grapevine, and others.

But the apostle John’s primary purpose in writing this Gospel was that his readers might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing they might have life through His name. (See John 20:31.)