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A few years ago I was invited to visit a church near the town where I lived at that time.
I asked the person who invited me if the church had a website where I could read about the denomination and perhaps listen to a few sermons. They did have a website and I spent a few hours there listening to a few recordings.
The sermons were very convincing but didn’t settle well with me. I actually came away from listening feeling a bit confused. The minister was preaching about how the bible was not needed. He went so far as to say that a person should toss their “bible into a garbage bin." He said that Christians have made the bible an idol rather than worshiping the creator Himself.
I had never heard such a teaching, and I began to pray and ask The Lord if there was any truth to what was being taught. I most definitely didn’t want to be a “idolater,” and I asked the Lord if that was what I had been doing.
I prayed concerning these things, and I picked up my bible and began to read Luke Ch. 4, Where Jesus was being tempted in the wilderness.
I knew immediately that this was HIS answer to my prayer.
Three times in Luke 4, Jesus answered with, “It is written.” The very first response was, “Man shall not live on bread alone but on every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”
We all go through trials and testing and I believe that we also should be able to answer in the same way with, “It is written.”
Since then each time I read through the bible I make note of every single passage that I find regarding studying the word, the written word and instruction from God (throughout scripture,) to write the word.
I’m absolutely amazed at how much the bible explains itself on how and why it was written!
I’d like to share some of those scriptures and passages, we all should be equipped and have an answer to any false teaching.
The first set of scriptures go into the instruction from God to “write it in a book.”
Isaiah 30:8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
Jeremiah 30:2 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
Jeremiah 36:2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
Revelation 1:11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
God breathed and God inspired:
2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
2 Timothy 3:17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
Psalms 45:1 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Written by the finger of God:
Exodus 31:18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Things written about what is written.
Psalms 40:6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
Psalms 40:7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
Psalms 102:18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
Proverbs 22:20 Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
Proverbs 22:21 That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?
Mark 9:12 And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.
Mark 9:13 But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.
Mark 11:17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Luke 4:4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
John 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.
Romans 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Romans 3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
Romans 14:11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
Romans 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
I've actually spoken with more than a few people who have turned away from studying the word of God because of similar false teaching that go against our written instruction. In doing so a person is leaning on his or her own understanding rather than trusting in God.
Psalms 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Psalms 12:7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
There are many,many more scriptures that are written that go into this subject. Feel free to share..
I asked the person who invited me if the church had a website where I could read about the denomination and perhaps listen to a few sermons. They did have a website and I spent a few hours there listening to a few recordings.
The sermons were very convincing but didn’t settle well with me. I actually came away from listening feeling a bit confused. The minister was preaching about how the bible was not needed. He went so far as to say that a person should toss their “bible into a garbage bin." He said that Christians have made the bible an idol rather than worshiping the creator Himself.
I had never heard such a teaching, and I began to pray and ask The Lord if there was any truth to what was being taught. I most definitely didn’t want to be a “idolater,” and I asked the Lord if that was what I had been doing.
I prayed concerning these things, and I picked up my bible and began to read Luke Ch. 4, Where Jesus was being tempted in the wilderness.
I knew immediately that this was HIS answer to my prayer.
Three times in Luke 4, Jesus answered with, “It is written.” The very first response was, “Man shall not live on bread alone but on every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”
We all go through trials and testing and I believe that we also should be able to answer in the same way with, “It is written.”
Since then each time I read through the bible I make note of every single passage that I find regarding studying the word, the written word and instruction from God (throughout scripture,) to write the word.
I’m absolutely amazed at how much the bible explains itself on how and why it was written!
I’d like to share some of those scriptures and passages, we all should be equipped and have an answer to any false teaching.
The first set of scriptures go into the instruction from God to “write it in a book.”
Isaiah 30:8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
Jeremiah 30:2 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
Jeremiah 36:2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
Revelation 1:11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
God breathed and God inspired:
2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
2 Timothy 3:17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
Psalms 45:1 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Written by the finger of God:
Exodus 31:18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Things written about what is written.
Psalms 40:6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
Psalms 40:7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
Psalms 102:18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
Proverbs 22:20 Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
Proverbs 22:21 That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?
Mark 9:12 And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.
Mark 9:13 But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.
Mark 11:17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Luke 4:4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
John 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.
Romans 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Romans 3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
Romans 14:11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
Romans 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
I've actually spoken with more than a few people who have turned away from studying the word of God because of similar false teaching that go against our written instruction. In doing so a person is leaning on his or her own understanding rather than trusting in God.
Psalms 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Psalms 12:7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
There are many,many more scriptures that are written that go into this subject. Feel free to share..