Funny, I have read the bible, but I came to Christ before I even owned one. All I have learned had being from Jesus, God and the holy Spirirt as they teach me on my journey through life. So tell me. where is it that God says the bible is His word,
Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Joh 1:15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
And so we see, Jesus is the word of God, Come in the flesh. And so it was that Gods word was spoken to Mary, and she heard it, believed and it brought fourth life, Jesus was the product of that word, andHe lived His life doing His fathers will, as Gods word never returns void, and so through His resurection, God word returned to Him and He received eternal Life, His work ( Jesus) completed..
And Jesus , what was His take on all of this,
Joh 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
Joh 5:40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
As He said,
Joh 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
And Saul, the one who was a pharisee, who was loved for His knowledge of the scriptures, who never knew Jesus, yet he had the scriptures, what did He have to say
Eph 4:20 But ye have not so learned Christ;
Eph 4:21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
2Co 3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
2Co 3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Gal 1:11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
Gal 1:12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
or Jesus again
Joh 6:45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
1Co 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
1Co 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
So what is it you want, Jesus, or knowledge, which is it you prefer. Jesus tells us that when He goes to the father, God will send us the Holy spirit to teach us the truth, not the bible , not the dead letter, but things to come.
God hasnt stopped talking we just stopped listening.
Rev 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
So cant you hear, open the door , Let Jesus in, there is no greater teacher then our saviour.
In His Love
What would we know of Christ or God without the books? There would be all sorts of crazy ideas, probably worse than Scientology, if thats possible.
We have books. it produced religion, and church, full of crazy ideas isnt it.
In his Love
