Is The Bible The Word of God?
Most of us equate the Bible with “the Word of God.” But how does the Bible itself define that phrase? Two passages answer it directly — and without a word of commentary added.
Most of us equate the Bible with “the Word of God.” But how does the Bible itself define that phrase? Two passages answer it directly — and without a word of commentary added.
“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” We’ve read it a hundred times. But when the apostles read “your word,” they weren’t thinking about a book. Take another look.
Scripture looks impossibly complex to most of us. But a child with a Highlights Magazine uses exactly the right skills — connecting dots, spotting what doesn’t fit, asking where something’s wrong with the picture. The complexity isn’t in the text. It’s in the scattered minds we bring to it.
We think of understanding as something you acquire — study enough, grasp enough, and eventually you understand. But the Greek word the New Testament uses for “understanding” means something different: unification. A bringing together of what was scattered. Connecting the dots is the literal meaning.
The common Bible canon has 66 books and 783,137 words in the King James Version. That is a lot of territory. But there is a thread running through all of it, and when you find it, the complexity begins to resolve. That thread is Jesus Christ. The Role of Scripture The writer of Hebrews opens…