Originally Posted by
DiscipleDave
The Bible itself is nothing but wood and ink.<<snip>>
This has to be one of the lowest views of scripture I have ever read.
What value does a Bible have in a hotel room drawer that is never read? Any? Is it not TRUE it only has value to the one reading it?
The bible IS the word of God.
The Bible is a book made of paper and ink. The Word of God is suppose to be written on our hearts. Maybe that is the problem with this generation they think and believe the Word of God is actually written on paper and not on our hearts.
Those who heard God speak and told them what to write, and those who wrote as the Spirit moved them, gave us His word.
True, the Words that are contained in a Bible are the Words of God, but if nobody reads them, they are nothing. A Bible sitting in a chest on an uninhabited island, is of no value to God nor anyone else for that matter, UNTIL somebody picks it up and reads it.
None of us have ever heard His voice audibly,
This is not TRUE. i have many different times and have had conversations with Him. What? You don't think God speaks to people like He has always done in the past. Where in Scriptures do you read that God stops speaking to people, or is that just something that you lack Faith in?
so when we need God to speak to us, we go to the bible, the word of God, and He speaks to us through it.
Sure God can speak to us via His Word, He can speak to us via the environment, He can speak to us audibly, He can speak to us through animals, He can speak to us through Angels, He can speak to us through His prophets, He can speak to us through the Holy Ghost, He can speak to us through signs and wonders. But woe to those who say and/or think that God CAN'T speak to us in one of those ways above.
The bible is our sole authority on how to live in peace with our neighbors, how to love our wife, how the wife is to give reverence to her husband, how to raise our children, how to treat our Brothers and Sisters in Christ, how to obey those who are in authority, to pray for all, including our enemies, how children are to be in obedience to their parents, how church is to be structured, &c.
All those things are what the Bible instructs us to do. The DOING of those things is altogether another matter entirely. The Bible is instructions for the Christian believers. But it has no power at all, until a person starts applying those things into their lives. Just because the Bible says not to steal. Does not mean i will no longer steal. It is only when that is written on my heart that i will not steal that i apply that to my life and no longer steal anything, not even a toothpick from a restaurant.
The Bible is a book made of paper and ink. it is nothing. Now what makes it something is the belief that i have in what that Book says and teaches.
What? The Bible you have now, can't never be replaced by another? What? The Bible you have now is the Word of God and has to be treated as such? Do you put that book on a pedestal in your house? Do you bow down to it and worship it because it is the Word of God? Surely none of you do those things, it is a book. it can be replaced by going to Walmart and purchasing another one. You even get them free if you don't have one.
It's not just wood and ink, but the word of God.
The Book itself is wood and ink, that is a fact and that is the TRUTH. A person can pick up that book and read it and it is not more the Word of God to that person than reading a fiction book. It is only the Word of God to those people who believe what is written in that Book is from God. The Word of God is written on your heart NOT on paper with ink.
Without it, we would have no way of knowing about a triune God and how to be saved.
Are you saying that an island full of people who are not Christian can't possibly come to be SAVED without a Bible? Really. What if a Christian without a Bible comes to the island, can that person teach them the Word of God that is written on that persons heart, WITHOUT a BIBLE? So then the Word of God is NOT a Book, not paper and ink, but the Word of God is what is written on a person heart from reading that Book made of paper and ink.
Do i need to go to the Bible to read the statement that Jesus is the Son of God. or is that written in my heart and i do not need a book to tell me that, i know it through and through, because that is written in my heart. How was it written in my heart? True, i read the Bible, or heard it spoken by another, but it was not a part of me until it was written on my heart. Apart from being written on a persons heart, they are mere words made by a press that pops out hundreds of Bibles an hour.
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††† In His Holy and Precious Name, Jesus Christ †††
DiscipleDave