So how am I reimagining “God-breathed” in this book? Specifically, I am playing with the idea of “God-breathed” in relation to the words “I can’t breathe,” uttered by both Eric Garner and George Floyd in their final moments and taken up as a slogan of the Black Lives Matter movement. My loose translation of 2 Timothy 3:16–17 is as follows: All writings are God-breathed and advantageous toward teaching, toward rebuke, toward correcting faults, toward instruction in justice, so that the person of God may be capable of finishing all good works.5
