Is all of what God wants to say to us contained in a single verse?
No. Nothing God has sent forth to the human race is wrapped up in just one verse. Scripture must be searched by comparing Scripture with Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation. Eternal destiny should rest on a series of doctrines and teachings that fit from cover to cover, not on a single verse.
Les explains that no giving forth of the Word, of the Scripture, is of any private interpretation; private means that which pertains to one person. Nothing God has sent forth to the human race is all wrapped up in just one verse. People get hung up on the Bible and ask why God did not make it plainer or simpler, but God knew He was not dealing with third graders; He deals with adults who can search the Scriptures. That searching is done by comparing Scripture with Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation, which puts a person on solid rock. Peter makes it plain: do not build your eternal destiny on one verse, or you will end up in the wrong place. Build it instead on a series of doctrines and teachings that fit from cover to cover. The speaking forth of God's Word did not come in the old time by the will of man, referring to the Old Testament writers.