Inspiration =/= dictation. A sunrise may inspire me to write a piece of music, but the notes and their arrangement are my own, not those of the sunrise.
Now, if the sunrise spoke to me and said, “I want you to write these notes,” then that would be dictation. But Timothy doesn’t say that scripture is the dictation of God, now does it?
Your other post here...
Again: show me where Timothy uses the term “dictation.” Further, when Timothy wrote that, the only scripture that existed was the Hebrew text. Therefore, it cannot refer to the NT texts, as you’ve been claiming. You’re in over your head, Bud.
Your argument is non sequitur and here is why....
The scripture does not use the word or idea of dictation (word for word) but the idea that the message comes from God. According to the scriptures...
2 TIMOTHY 3:16 [16],
All scripture is given by
inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness
The Greek word used of "INSPIRATION" is θεόπνευστος G2315; theopneustos; From G2316 and a presumed derivative of G4154;
divinely breathed in: - given by inspiration of God.
This word occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. It properly means, God-inspired - from Θεός Theos, "God," and πνέω pneō, "to breathe, to breathe out." The idea of "breathing upon, or breathing into the soul," is that which the word naturally conveys. Thus, God breathed into the nostrils of Adam the breath of life
Genesis 2:7, and thus the Saviour breathed on his disciples, and said, "receive ye the Holy Ghost;"
John 20:22.
The idea here is that the life was in the breath and in the words given by inspiration of God, and that an intelligent spirit was communicated with the breath. It's meaning is that God put his words into Holy men as they were moved by the Holy Ghost *2 Peter 1:21 and these men wrote God's Word and given to mankind. It is therefore God's Word written through people for mankind. Although some of it is directly God's Word spoken and written by God himself. *
Exodus 20:1-17;
Exodus 32:16
Other verses hold similar meanings...
2 PETER 1:20-21 [20], Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. [21],
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
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For the prophecy came not in old time" - Margin, or, "at any." The Greek word (ποτὲ pote) will bear either construction. It would be true in either sense. What was true of them, however, is true of all prophecy, that it is
not by the will of man. The word "prophecy" here is without the article, meaning prophecy in general - all that is prophetic; or, in a more general sense still, all that the prophets taught, whether relating to future events or not.
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By the will of man" - It was not of human origin; not discovered by the human mind. The word "will," here seems to be used in the sense of "prompting" or "suggestion;" men did not speak by their own suggestion, but as truth was brought to them by God.
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But holy men of God" - Pious men commissioned by God, or employed by him as his messengers to mankind.
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Spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost" - Compare
2 Timothy 3:16. The Greek phrase here (ὑπὸ Πνεύματος Ἁγίου φερόμενος hupo Pneumatos Hagiou pheromenos) means "borne along, moved, influenced" by the Holy Ghost. The idea is, that in what they spake they were "carried along" by an influence from above. They moved in the case only as they were moved; they spake only as the influence of the Holy Ghost was upon them. They were no more self-moved than a vessel at sea is that is impelled by the wind; and as the progress made by the vessel is to be measured by the impulse bearing upon it, so the statements made by the prophets are to be traced to the impulse which bore upon their minds. They were not, indeed, in all respects like such a vessel, but only in regard to the fact that all they said as prophets was to be traced to the foreign influence that bore upon their minds. (
source here in this section on Peter is mostly from Barnes notes on the bible)
Hope this helps
