The red-letter-only belief has been around for a long time, but it's gained popularity due to movements like ex-vangelicals and Side A.
It's the belief that only Christ’s words can be trusted, not the words of the human authors of Scripture. Therefore, any commands not spoken by Christ are optional.
However, Christ's words disagree with this belief:
“I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears … the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.” John 16:12-15
After Christ's ascension, the Holy Spirit divinely inspired the human authors to write the New Testament:
“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
But the greatest contradiction of the red-letter-only argument is this: human authors recorded Christ’s words. If they believe human authors are unreliable, then they can't trust Christ's words either.
Either all of Scripture is divinely inspired, or none of it is.
When someone tries to discredit something in Scripture based on red-letter-only thinking, remind them that “all Scripture is God-breathed,” not simply quotes from Christ (2 Timothy 3:16).
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See God Wrote Us a Book for my thoughts on how God's Word changed my life. And for a better understanding of the reliability of God's Word, see Believing God's Word Is Inerrant.
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