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4. The Roman Catholic church attempts to contradict 2Timothy 3:6-17 by quoting
2Peter 1:20 as follows: “Above all, remember that no one can explain
by oneself a prophecy of Scripture.”5
It
is always important that scriptures be understood it their context. When we
allow the above verse to be so read it becomes clear that the admonition is NOT
regarding the interpreting (or explaining) of the scriptures by a reader
but the recording of the scriptures by the inspired writer!
II
Peter 1:20-21 This, then, you must understand first of all, that no prophecy of
the scripture is made by private interpretation. For not by will of man
was prophecy brought at any time, but holy men of God spoke as they were
moved by the Holy Spirit.
(NIV...2Peter
1:20-21 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came
about by the prophet's own interpretation. For prophecy never had its
origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along
by the Holy Spirit.)
5Karl Keating, Catholics, Fundamentalists, and the Bible, (Los
Angeles, Franciscan Communications), p.6
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