What do the Scriptures in the Bible mean?

Answer 1

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When the word 'scripture' is used in the New Testament, it is a reference to the Hebrew scriptures, or what we now call the Old Testament. The one partial exception to this is in 2 Peter 3:16, which refers to Paul's epistles as scripture, along with the "other scriptures." Second Peter was arguably the last book of the New Testament to have been written, dated by scholars to just before the middle of the second century, and by then Paul's epistles were considered scripture, as is reflected in this mistake in an epistle that was intended to appear to have been written by the apostle Peter.