[SoothingDave]

Now, what contributes to this perfection (completeness, full equippedness)? 1) Didactic instruction; 2) proof, evidence, and reproof; 3) Straightening of crooked paths, root word "orthosis" or the truth about a topic, namely Christ and salvation; and 4) paedia, or chastening. Paul says these are the components that can make a man perfect, complete, fully equipped.

You get all of this from that one passage? Are you sure you're not bringing your own external argument to these words?

My analogy is not false. Because the subject is "Scripture" and not "gasoline" you want to add a whole bunch of other things that the text never says.

[Chaguito]

You get all of this from that one passage?

Soory I missed your reply here. Dave, I don't know what you're talking about. It is what the passage says. Period. Was it not you that was trying to explain the passage with gasoline as necessary but not sufficient? I confess, I'm confused by your answer.