Yes, we most definitely should consider the source. "All scripture is given by inspiration of God" comes to mind. The Gospels are quite a lot more than "just" the quotations of Jesus, if you are familiar with them. And in the same way, the rest of scripture is relevant in many ways to our lives. I think it is a little spurious to try to place "importance" of some "over" others since God has chosen to reveal himself to us in this way and has preserved it from destruction for all these millennium. The only "alleged" Christians I have read that have tried to place preeminence of some scripture over others are the ones who claim their own revealed, extra-biblical documents.
That’s not a very nice thing to say about the WCF or Institutes of the Christian Religion.
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Yet there is no Scripture that says that all are of equal importance.
The Gospels are quite a lot more than "just" the quotations of Jesus, if you are familiar with them.
Very true, yet there are those who don't seem to realize that quotations from Almighty God are to be taken with the utmost and complete acceptance.
Matthew 4: 4 3 He said in reply, "It is written: 'One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.'"
The quotes of Jesus are to be accepted as His literal words - the words of God Almighty. The quotes from, say, Nahum are not the literal words of God Almighty spoken to men. We believe that God meant us to read them, but they do not weigh against the spoken words of the Lord.
The only "alleged" Christians I have read that have tried to place preeminence of some scripture over others are the ones who claim their own revealed, extra-biblical documents.
Funny, for the 1200 years prior to the Reformation, there was no doubt whatsoever about Church documents and what the belief of the Church is.