frogprince- i suppose you may have forgotten teaching from your past faith ,but may be to remind you,though realizing you no longer accept it,i offer the bible teaching.
the prophets are said to be carried along by the Spirit.all scripture is God breathed.i take this to mean that they were not writing mechanically or by dictation but that they were writing without direct awareness of the Spirit working through them.there are however some sections where God does direct the writer as to what is written.

jack- when i say pick and choose,i am referring to the tendancy of not aacepting everything as divinely inspired [if any!],not whether laws presribed for OT isreal apply to NT christians.