2 Timothy 3:16, 17 footnotes For an overview of these epistemological areas: http://www.bris.ac.uk/philosophy/current/undergrad/studyguide/rationa l.html http://plato.stanford.

edu/entries/rationalism-empiricism/ An excellent history see: The Bible, Natural Theology and Natural Law: Conflict or Compromise, Robert Morey
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Sam Harris, debate with Rick Warren, April, 2007

Richard Dawkins- The Independent, 23 December 1998 It was in the same vein that Christopher Hitchens wrote: The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals. (Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything)
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A sampling of such comments can be seen in: www.freethoughtdebater.com/tenbiblecontradictions.htm; http://www.religioustolerance.org/inerran6.htm www.bible.org/.../contemporary-problems-biblical-interpretation-part-i- ; etc
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Daniel B. Wallace, 06/30/2004, http://wap.bible.org/article/relationqeovpneusto-grafhv-2-timothy-316 He goes on to say: 2 Tim 3:16, the passage which on any reckoning must be regarded as of central I importance to the self-witness of scripture. . . with increasing regularity in conservative Protestant circlesexegetical essays are showing up which address a variety of problems. (Daniel Wallace, Ibid)
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Sproul, RC, Faith Alone, The Evangelical Doctrine of Justification, p. 24

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Specifically, it is a Nominative singular feminine adjective: Wesley J. Perschbacher, The New Analytical Greek Lexicon, 6th Printing, p. 315
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W.E. Vine, Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words (See Eph. 2:21; Acts 2:36; Acts 4:29). Vine goes on to say- Used with the article it means the whole of one object. Furthermore, when used with a noun (Scripture) it becomes a pronoun- - meaning everyone. (W.E. Vine, Op. Cit.)
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Walter Bauer, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament He goes on to quote several verses which show this- Matt. 3:10every TREE; John 1:9- every MAN; Luke 3:5- Every VALLEY; Rev. 1:7- every EYE EW Bullinger- A Critical Lexicon and concordance to the English and Greek New Testament- also says in the singular, without the article, signifies every (with the article- the whole of the object it qualifies. It is also interesting that EG White quoted this verse in 1911 version of the Great Controversy- every scripture inspired of God . . . from the Revised Version. (The Great Controversy, p. vii, emphasis mine)
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Vincents Word Studies also confirms this- All Scripture ( `), better, every Scripture, that is, every passage of Scripture. Scripture as a whole is as or . is never used with `. ` is the single passage, usually defined by this, or that, or the, or which saith. (Jamieson-Fausset-Browns Bible Commentary also makes the following comment- All scripture-Greek, "Every Scripture," that is, Scripture in its every part.)
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New English Translation- Marginal notes; http://net.bible.org/#! bible/Matthew+1

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