by AviWangler » Sat Aug 16, 2014 11:29 am
Yes it should be read by all including Jews because all books are eternal. One of the biggest deceptions of Martin Luther was to say that the other books were not scripture (a trick) and that they were not "sola scripture" (the closed canon). The other books kept separate weren't scripture but were readable canon which does not prohibit them from being prophetic and most definitely makes them historically accurate. The term "sola scriptura" was used by the church to define the close of the New Testament canon. This is interesting because the Catholic theologians who influenced his theology such as Augustine came from backgrounds that did not consider the OT as being accurate (hence replacement theology). Since God is infinite the word of God is infinite and is linear (including the other readable books). Without the Law, Prophets, Writings, Other books, Gospel, Acts and Epistles you're not looking at the whole picture. Dividing with greater degree then precribed becomes subtraction which the scriptures warn against.