On the Word of God

Now, being that we are more educated than our ancestors and we have an ear to the Holy Spirit we need to understand that the Bible is indeed NOT the infallible word of God. Traditionally it has been taught to us that the Bible is our only way of seeing into and through the eyes of God. If that was really the case then there wouldn’t be over 3000 Protestant denominations today because the “Word” would be equal among all men. Only thing the Bible really is to be used for is as a tool to find His word and to reflect on what God did in past situations. So, that brings us to the question of what is the actual word of God. One thing that God has graced me with in seeing things in the now and in present tense is that his word is and can only be present tense. Deuteronomy 8:3 taught us “…do not live on bread alone but on every word that COMES from the mouth of the Lord.” Notice how it didn’t say came or will come but comes (present tense). The only way we can get a real word from God is by listening to him and hearing his voice. Not always does this require us to read our Bibles for EVERY situation that we come across. Now does that mean that we should totally ditch our Bibles? No it doesn’t for scripture also teaches us in II Timothy 2:15(KJV) to “STUDY to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” What else can we study but the main tool that God has given us which is the Bible. The Bible and every translation, concordance, and dictionary in the Hebrew, Greek, or any other language are only tools to find his Word when he doesn’t speak to us directly. They were never meant to be taken as the final authority. They were meant to help us find his voice. When it comes to studying we need to understand that there were 40 different original authors to the Bible with different mentalities, paradigms, and writing styles. We also need to understand that each book is different from the others. While we group books like the Pentateuch (Hebrew Torah, first five books of creation and law) and the Gospels together we need to treat the rest as individual books. Unless a New Testament scripture is quoting Old Testament prophecy or scripture then there is never a time where two books should be placed side by side and connected. We have to rightly DIVDE the word of truth not wrongly CONNECT scripture that have nothing to do with each other.