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The Bible is a tool of learning. It doesn't contain everything we need, but it's useful.

Wow! Don't overwhelm us with your description of God's Word!

Hmmm...I wonder how many good textbooks this description fits?

ALL: Unlike Stormprepper's open dissing of the Bible: 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
(2 Tim. 3)

[sp]The Bible is a tool of learning. It doesn't contain everything we need, but it's useful.

And still true.

[Colofornian]Wow! Don't overwhelm us with your description of God's Word!

"God's Word" is your description, not God's. The Bible contains some of the words, instruction, and dealings with God, but not all. It also contains the musings of men, commentaries, remembered stories, and words of the prophets.

Truth is truth. I worship God not some of the writings about God. Some of the writings in the Bible aren't about God at all.

ALL: Unlike Stormprepper's open dissing of the Bible: 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. (2 Tim. 3)

ALL: Colofornian likes to state the above until you point out that the "All Scripture" means all scripture. Even the scripture the so called "church fathers" decided they didn't like so they threw it out.

For example:

1. book of the Wars of the Lord (Num. 21:14)
2. book of Jasher (Josh. 10:13; 2 Sam. 1:18)
3. book of the acts of Solomon (1 Kgs. 11:41)
4. book of Samuel the seer (1 Chr. 29:29)
5. book of Gad the seer (1 Chr. 29:29)
6. book of Nathan the prophet (1 Chr. 29:29; 2 Chr. 9:29)
7. prophecy of Ahijah (2 Chr. 9:29)
8. visions of Iddo the seer (2 Chr. 9:29; 12:15; 13:22)
9. book of Shemaiah (2 Chr. 12:15)
10. book of Jehu (2 Chr. 20:34)
11. sayings of the seers (2 Chr. 33:19)
12. an epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, earlier than our present 1 Corinthians (1 Cor. 5:9)
13. possibly an earlier epistle to the Ephesians (Eph. 3:3)
14. an epistle to the Church at Laodicea (Col. 4:16)
15. and some prophecies of Enoch, known to Jude (Jude 1:14)
16. the manner of the kingdom, written by Samuel (1 Sam. 10:25)
17. the rest of the acts of Uzziah written by Isaiah (2 Chr. 26:22)

Vision, prophesies and instruction all gone. And this is just what we have references to. How much was there on top of this?

All scripture means all scripture. And no, the Bible doesn't contain it all. There was a whole lot more...