What Did Peter and Jude View As Scripture?
Some Christians today believe only the actual spoken words of Jesus to be divinely inspired and to be taken as the authoritative word of God, and other Bible writings, including the Old Testament (OT), to be merely the words of humans.. Is this the way the early Christians viewed things? What did Peter and Jude view as scripture?
PETER’S VIEW
Below, we will examine the Apostle Peter’s view of the OT and also his view on his fellow apostle Paul’s writings:
“Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.” (2 Peter 1:20-21) Peter viewed God as the source of Scripture, including the Old Testament. God is infallible, so His word is also.