You are using an epistle to say every word of all epistles is divinely inspired? 
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2 Timothy 3:15-17
"15 and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God[a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work."
Notice that there is no hedging that bet?
"15 and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God[a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work."
Notice that there is no hedging that bet?
"But I say this as a concession, not as a commandment" and "But to the rest I, not the Lord, say" are pretty big hedges. Every word of every epistle is straight from the mouth of God, even the parts that say outright they are NOT? God is enacting the Liars Paradox? That just does not work, man.
All scripture. And well, here's a topic that we often discussed at school...do you think that the council that decided what was and was not cannon was not similarly inspired? That the books that made it, and the books that did not were chosen for a purpose? Do you truly believe that God would leave something like that up to us alone? You know as well as I do that God acts in today's day and age.
Have a little faith dude.
~Jeordam
Have a little faith dude.
~Jeordam
Scripture says David was the apple of Gods eye, but that did not stop him having a man killed to take his wife. Humans, even Gods most faithful servants, are still HUMAN, and free will remains a very real thing. So, yes, I think much, most of the canon was chosen by divine inspiration. But—WHICH canon?
The first one, chosen in the Second Century by Marcion, whom the Church declared a heretic soon thereafter? Marcion followed divine inspiration throughout his Church career? Not only when selecting the first NT canon (rejecting many books now considered canonical now) but when denying Christs physical body (and therefore both the Crucifixion and Jesus' dual nature) and asserting God the Father was a distinct entity in opposition to a the "lesser" OT deity who created the world?
Perhaps Origens, even though he was ALSO eventually condemned as a heretic, and his canon included the Shepherd of Hermas, while excluding James, I Peter and II & III John?
We do not even KNOW for certain when the Roman Catholic canon was first compiled, let alone how; it is theorized to have been at the Synod of Hippo Regius, but no records of that council exists.
Maybe we should accept Luthers canon, even though he sought to remove Hebrews, James, Jude and Revelation (which is why they come last in most modern Protestant bibles, including the KJV.) In comparing those two, by the way, what are we to make of the Apocrypha, which the Roman Catholic canon includes, and even Luther only segregates from but WITHIN the rest of scripture, but the KJV and most other Protestant bibles exclude?`
In other words, the biblical canon is not even settled among various Christian denominations NOW, but are we to accept one of the many alternative canons from the Churchs first centuries as authoritative?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon#Early_Church
Sure, I have faith: In GOD, not men.