Paul Christensen
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The whole Bible is the Word of God in that contained in its pages is everything that God wants mankind to know about Himself, His ways, and His instructions to us that leads to our salvation.I daresay we can acknowledge the specialness and sacredness of scripture without having to elevate scribes & translators up to the level as if they were infallible deity themselves.
Some people define the Word of God as God's direct instructions to us, so they take a verse out of the Old Testament and require people to obey it as if God has spoken the instruction directly for all to follow. But when they read God's "telephone directories" containing the genealogies, they maintain that these are not God's Word but just Jewish historical information. But these are just as much God's Word for us, in that they contain information that we need to know to understand the path by which the national of Israel came into being.
The instructions for constructing the tabernacle are God's Word for us to show how and why the different parts of the tabernacle were put in place. The duties of the priests and Levites were very precise and exacting and were to be followed without deviation. These are there to show us that true worship of God is very precise and exacting and that deviation becomes false worship and the offering of false fire, especially by those who did not fit the exacting qualifications for priesthood.
The Bible shows the various aspects of God's Word to us - education, knowledge, encouragement, comfort, assurance, examples of error, the difference between righteous and unrighteous conduct, the development of God's plan of salvation and why the plan was needed in the first place, the birth of development of the Church, and then, through the Apostles' letters, instructions for us to follow to maintain our walk in the Spirit.
If we want to know the will of God, read the Bible, because it is all there for us to know. If we want to do the will of God, do the Biblical instructions that are written there to us.