"Religionless Christianity"

[Desert Snake]

Mine didn't, particularly. Mine was a progressive, liberal seminary that admitted students from many different denominations, so it didn't spend much time teaching us "How to Prove God's Existence." It spent time teaching theology, biblical criticism and ethics. it was more "God is ____ in relation to this school of thought, or in the eyes of those people." The God concept was relative, not absolute.

Hmm, ok, interesting.

 

[sojourner]

To the contrary, 2 Timothy 3:16,17 says that "All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, so that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work."

It's not talking about stuff that wasn't written yet -- and Timothy was written fairly early.

The Hebrew canon was complete before Christ began his ministry.

The texts were there, but the canon, itself, wasn't actually set until after the Christian canon. That's why the LXX differs from the Hebrew canon.

The Christian Greek Scriptures were completed by the end of the first century.

Not all of them.

So the Bible does claim to be the Word of God, and Jesus Christ accepted the Hebrew Scriptures as God's Word, quoted from it continually, and taught and applied it in his ministry.

1) The bible doesn't make that statement.
2) Jesus never made that statement, either.