That is primarily a theological question to which I can only give a theological answer.
2 Peter 1:3 - seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.
This verse at the beginning of 2 Peter speaks of grace and peace being multiplied to us and knowledge of Jesus our Lord. This grace and peace is being multiplied in the fact that He has by His divine power granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness. Now I ask the question “Is there something missing in Scripture that is necessary for life and godliness?” Could Peter say these things if there was a lack or a deficiency that needed to be made up? But that is not all look at Jude 3
Jude 3 - Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints
Once for all delivered to the saints. In fact the literal reading would be “The once for all delivered to the saints faith.” Now what is that faith? What is the content of that faith? Is there something that the scriptures don’t tell us about that faith? I don’t believe so.
Hebrews 1:1 - God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways,
Now the point of that being that God’s way before to speak to His people was through prophets but now a final and complete revelation has come in the person of Jesus Christ. Now you may say – What a minute! What about Paul’s writings and Peter’s writings and Hebrews coming after Jesus. That is true, but what is the content of their revelation? The content of their discussion of revelation is Jesus Christ.
If there was to be anything more it would be about Jesus Christ and Him only because He is the final revelation and nothing other than that.
I then have to ask the question “Could there be anything more than what has been revealed?” Why would God wait? This is what the Bible calls the end times and we know how swiftly God put together the New Testament. Roughly over a period of over 55 years...
Everything that has been offered as being a continuation or addition to the canon of Scripture has always failed the test that the early church utilized. Everything that man has come up with to attempt to add to the canon of Scripture has always taught something contradictory to what was already there. This includes the Book of Mormon, the Pearl of Great Price and other LDS scriptures. The Jehovah’s Witnesses are guilty of the very same thing with their so called on-going revelation of God from the Watchtower and/or Governing Body.
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How could Peter have known that there was nothing missing in the scriptures when the New Testament did not even exist at the moment he spoke those words?
Very simply actually…The Apostle Peter was inspired by God
2 Peter 1:21 - for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.
This is how we have obtained Scripture. God used men as the instruments to pen His Word, His thoughts, His instructions to humanity.
It the Bible says that there is nothing lacking in Scripture, then there is nothing lacking in Scripture. Do you agree or don’t you?
If you do agree with the Bible then you might be invalidating your own point, but if you do not agree with the Bible your argument is not with me but with God. So..what do you think?
I believe that Peter was inspired but I do not believe that Ty's understanding of Peter is. Peter was talking about the complete nature of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, not the complete nature of the Bible.
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