>When St. Paul wrote those words, the New Testament was not in existence.<
Yes but God was. Paul was writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.That is just a ludicrous argument for a Christian to make.The New Testament is as much scripture as the old testament.
To make that argument is to deny God all his attributes and make him subject to the literary rules of man.
Yes but God was. Paul was writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.That is just a ludicrous argument for a Christian to make.The New Testament is as much scripture as the old testament. To make that argument is to deny God all his attributes and make him subject to the literary rules of man. No one is denying that the New Testament is Scripture.
What you are suggesting is that when Paul wrote a letter to a particular audience, that what both Paul and the audience meant by the word "Scripture" was not what the Holy Spirit really meant. That only years later would we come to know what was really meant, and that both the sender and receiver of the letter were out of the loop.
SD