What IS the Bible???

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exnihilo said:
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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I like the way you summed that up. 🙂
 
andrewstx said:
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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Really? May I recommend Verbum Domini, sections 5, 6, 7…I’ve never heard many people comparing an encyclical of Benedict xvi as something from a Protestant sect!
 
Neofight said:
Really? May I recommend Verbum Domini, sections 5, 6, 7…I’ve never heard many people comparing an encyclical of Benedict xvi as something from a Protestant sect!
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He writes in ch 7: “the Christian faith is not a religion of the book: Christianity is the religion of the word of God”

So the Word of God is not a book. There ya go.
 
Alizarin said:
He writes in ch 7: “the Christian faith is not a religion of the book: Christianity is the religion of the word of God”

So the Word of God is not a book. There ya go.
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