Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Thy Word

Many churchs and christians don't see just how important the Word of God really is. The bible is the single most important resource for any christian and for any circumstance. The realization must be made that the Bible is not only of God, but it is God. As John puts it, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word WAS God, and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us . . ." This clearly tells us that God's word is all we need and it will save us. Jesus is the truth and the truth sets us free. Therefore if Jesus is the Word then the Word is truth and therefore the Word will set us free if we only believe and understand what God wrote in it.
Many people try to deny the authority of God's word by saying that there were dozens of different writers, including many for Genesis alone. However this doesn't disprove it's authority, but further confirms it because it would be impossible for so many men of so many diverse origins and cultures over such a vast amount of time to write such a miraculous and extensive work and not contradict each other in some regard. The bible doesn't do this. Further more it shows God's design in using many not just one man in writing it and although the writing styles are clearly different(such as in prayer some might start with "Dear God", "Dear Father", "Dear Jesus" etc.) it is just as if a writer or carpenter would use different tools. Some might use a pencil, a pen, or a crayola, or some might even carve their writing with a hammer and chisel, but it still says the same truth.
This perfect book, of which any other form of literature is just a mimickery, is in all parts "profitable for rebuke, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished until all good works." This means that every part of God's word must be recognized and used for good, there is no reason to ignore any part. The bible also says in several places including two passages in Proverbs to not "take from or add to God's word". This means that all those religions that change the Bible(Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc.) can not be of God. This also means that those old scrolls that they have found(Dead-sea scrolls, Book of Judith, Book of Enoch, etc.) that weren't originally in the Bible, shouldn't be added, even though some don't refute any part of the Bible because the God I worship is powerful enough and smart enough to write His own book the right way in the way He wanted at the right time and in the right form and can preserve this wonderful book throughout all of history.
We also have assurance that it will never be destroyed, the Bible says that "God's word will never fade" and that "moth and mold will never corrupt it" It will last forever because God is forever and for this we should cherish it all the more. It is the key to eternal life and in it is God's perfect will. If only christians would look to it more and less to worldly theories and secular psychology. It has the answers to any problem and if we truly trusted in God, then we should trust just as much in the only perfect thing we have in this world. And even though man's interpretation of the Bible can be flawed at times, this word of truth will always remain, unflawed, undisturbed, and still forever perfect.

1 comment:

Katrina said...

hey, I finally read this. that was a pretty great post. I really do love reading the Bible now, 'cause it's so amazing.