Self Defeating? What the book says about the book

It may be strange to read what the Bible, has to say about the Bible, but remember, at the time the Bible was being written, there were no bibles. In the time of Noah, Abraham, David, Daniel, they did not have Bibles. At most, they had scrolls of history or perhaps some of the scrolls of prophets (The only reference I can think of is when Daniel reads the scroll of Jeremiah). Then you look at the Gospels and the epistles, all written before 100 CE, but Bibles weren't compiled until 300 CE or something. So the New Testament references to "scriptures" (graphe in Greek, which means holy writ) it probably refers to the Old Testament, which was compiled by then. I believe there is a future (future for back then) meaning though, which prophetically refers to the Bible as a whole. It's not a new concept that the Bible has contemporary for its time as well as future significance.

And so is that weird? The bible talks about itself, and says things about itself. Well, if you don't believe in the Bible or God, then you read things like

4 For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
-Romans 15:4

or

5 "Every word of God is flawless;
he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
6 Do not add to his words,
or he will rebuke you and prove you a liar.
Prov 30:5-6

and you say, the Word of God isn't flawless or it doesn't encourage me because I don't believe in it, which is perfectly logical. I don't think it's self defeating though. I've seen in a number of books, in the forward or introduction, where the author does some explaining of the book itself. That's pretty usual, something like "This book is not meant to be ..." or "You should read this book in this way..." and that's fine. The one who wrote the book knows what he was thinking at the time and then addresses some misconceptions people may have when reading the book.

Well, I believe the Bible does the exact same thing. God, who inspires the Word of God, says this is how you should approach scripture. If we have questions about any book, who better to ask then the one who wrote it? And who wrote the Bible? Well... God. Sure, maybe those verses aren't good for convincing someone of the Bible's truth, but for people who already believe or are open to it, it's a way for them to see what God was thinking when He wrote this book. Not only that, we get an insight into the lives of past people and see their reactions to this Word. If Paul says, this Word is good for teaching and correcting and we're not using the Bible for those things, then we better examine how we're doing things because Paul is one of the pinnacles of an example of a Christian.

I think another question we have to ask ourselves is do we even know what God says about the Bible? More than anything we learn about God through reading the Word and to know Him is more valuable than any teaching or rule. It is like a friend who writes you a letter to tell you about something he did. Well, you learn about what he did, but you also see his reactions to it and you get insight into who he is through that letter. And that perhaps is the most important thing.