What IS the Bible???

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Are people talking past each other? I see discussions on authority, the Bible, the canon and how it came to be, and in the past, I always assumed that everyone would view the Bible as the divinely inspired writings that are the living the Word of God. Only after much discussion did I realize that the friends of mine (Christians) did not see it that way. Rather, some viewed the Bible as something that gives some indication about what Jesus was all about, but Bible couldn’t necessarily be counted upon (their own intuition could just as easily be more or less valid).

So, I desire to start this thread to learn what other people say that the Bible IS. What is it? What does it do?
 
The Bible is the Word of God. It is the Living Word of God.
“And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.” -John 21:25 (KJV)
 
The Bible is the living and inspired Word of God which was revealed by the Spirit to people of every walk of life but all united to one purpose to put pen to paper (or scroll :D) the Word of God which was revealed to them. It is an infallible work documenting the history of the people of God from creation to the coming of the Messiah (Jesus Christ). It also documents the founding of the Church which Christ started and the Early Church and the missionary spread of Christianity. It ends with a prophetic work describing the end of times when Christ will return to earth to defeat Satan once and for all.
 
The Bible is the living and inspired word of God and is the written Tradition an extension of Sacred Tradition, not in competition with, but equal to oral Tradition. They cannot contradict each other as their message is the same.
 
The thing is that without Holy Tradition, the Bible loses a lot of context. They compliment each other, which is why protestants can have so many different denominations. They only recognize the Bible, and its not even a complete Bible.
 
in_servitude said:
What is it? What does it do?
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A collection of sacred texts revealing the nature of God and the nature of His relationship with us. That’s what I would say… Heck, that’s what I just did say. Well that worked out nicely. 👍
 
Sacred scripture is more than salvation history, more than the mere word of God…scripture is God himself. Jesus is the logos who was with the father before time. And this Word was incarnate and became man.

so while the gifts are made into the real body and blood of the incarnation, we are just as much in the presence of the pre-incarnate Logos, the Son of God, when we read, hear , or proclaim the word from sacred scripture.

Peace and all good!
 
What does it mean to say The Bible is the living word of God?
 
A library filled with the love of God, and spoken to us through His Son as a friend, we need only to follow His commands. The ten, and the Beatitudes . Easy to say hard to do !

May God Bless All
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Why read it:

The Church "forcefully and specifically exhorts all the Christian faithful.Â*.Â*. to learn the surpassing knowledge of Jesus Christ, by frequent reading of the divine Scriptures. Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

What is it:

It was by the apostolic Tradition that the Church discerned which writings are to be included in the list of the sacred books.90 This complete list is called the canon of Scripture. It includes 46 books for the Old Testament (45 if we count Jeremiah and Lamentations as one) and 27 for the New.

All Sacred Scripture is but one book, and this one book is Christ, “because all divine Scripture speaks of Christ, and all divine Scripture is fulfilled in Christ”

“The Church has always venerated the divine Scriptures as she venerated the Body of the Lord” : both nourish and govern the whole Christian life. “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Ps 119:105; cf. Is 50:4).

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“In the beginning was the Word” refers to Our Lord, not to a book. He is the Divine Logos.
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Right. And Christianity is not a religion “of the book”. I believe a Pope said that.

Which is why I don’t see why we debate so vigorously the issue of what’s canonical.
 
Neofight said:
Sacred scripture is more than salvation history, more than the mere word of God…scripture is God himself. Jesus is the logos who was with the father before time. And this Word was incarnate and became man.

so while the gifts are made into the real body and blood of the incarnation, we are just as much in the presence of the pre-incarnate Logos, the Son of God, when we read, hear , or proclaim the word from sacred scripture.

Peace and all good!
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No, No, No. The bible is not God! It is an inspired but not dictated record of God’s relations with humanity.

This reminds me a lot of the fundamentalist Protestant sect I converted from. They thought the bible was God too. The preacher would quote the bible with the words “God says”, sorry the bible is not God. They had a saying called CENI, command, example, neccasary inference.

Anything taught or practiced in hat sect had to meet all of those criteria or it was forbidden. So they have no musical instruments in their “buildings”. They have no clerics just “preachers” and anyone can preach if they are male. They have no stained glass, statues or any decorations in their “buildings” since the bible does not command their use.

LOGOS in John’s gospel refers to Jesus, not the bible.
 
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Originally Posted by aemcpa

“In the beginning was the Word” refers to Our Lord, not to a book. He is the Divine Logos.

Right. And Christianity is not a religion “of the book”. I believe a Pope said that.

Which is why I don’t see why we debate so vigorously the issue of what’s canonical.
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You are correct. Christianity began and survived 350 years without the book. The canonical debate is a pride thing…on both sides but for different reason…but none the less, pride.

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The Bible is revelation, history, poetry, wisdom, letters and plenty more descriptions. I do believe many people don’t fully consider what the Bible is. Parts of the Old Testament seem to go on and on about generations. Some portions are descriptions of events, which were not good, and not what God wills. Each of the Gospels seems to serve a different purpose or tell about Jesus with a different focus. The Epistles are letters. It is interesting to read the introductions and consider that and to realize many were written to address specific actual problems in the church. Or to consider St. Paul writing about the large letters he writes in his own hand.
 
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