![]() “The word of the LORD came to…” As we continue our study, we will review some examples of those details. The prophets claimed to be speaking the very words of God. God spoke to Moses face to face, 5and as we carefully study the books of Moses, it appears that the Torah was given to Moses letter by letter, whether he realized it or not. As we examine the text even more carefully, we have found that there are a wide variety of messages that disappear if we change one letter. The authors of the books of the Bible wrote exactly what God wanted to communicate through them to the world, which has been confirmed through subtleties in the coding structures. ![]() How did these documents actually come about? The writers were chosen and prepared for their writing of these documents.īefore I formed thee in the belly I knew thee and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.” This is not out of line on their part, for Jesus preapproved their ministry through the Holy Spirit in the upper room discourse: The writers of the New Testament books declare they are ministers of God, whom God uses to bring His Word. Peter recognized Paul’s writings as of equal authority, and Paul cites Luke 10:7 alongside Deuteronomy 25:4 as Scripture, quoting them together in 1 Timothy 5:18. In those days, most Jews read the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Old Testament. When we read the first sixteen verses of 2 Peter 3, it’s clear that Peter regards Paul’s writing as equivalent to the Hebrew Law and the Prophets. …ven as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction. The Jews of Christ’s day considered the Old Testament to be Scripture, but Peter makes a novel step and calls Paul’s New Testament writings “scripture” as well. Following the meaning of Jesus’ words, we might be better off today using the terms Old Contract and New Contract. ![]() Language changes over time, and the word we might choose today would be “compact” or “covenant.” While the Jews had lived for centuries under the Law, Jesus’ blood offered a new legal setup, one in which grace triumphed over legalism. 3 When Jesus says in Matthew 26:28, “For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins,” he does not mean “testament” the way we think of a testimony today. The word “testament” - whether we speak of the Old Testament or the New Testament - comes from the Latin testamentum, which hails from the Greek term, diatheke, indicating a legal arrangement. Originally it connoted something written on papyrus, but today the word “book” has become the name for the Book, the ultimate Document of all time. ![]() The word “Bible” is derived through Latin from the Greek word biblia, which is a diminutive of biblios, the word for “book” or any kind of written document. 2 There’s nothing accidental about it the Bible’s 66 books tell one complete story. The entire dramatic narrative is told from Genesis to Revelation, from the promise in the Garden that the seed of the woman would crush the head of the Serpent 1 to the destruction of the Dragon, the old Serpent in Revelation. They promise us a future where He rules and reigns over all the earth. Together, they prophesy about that Savior and give us the fulfillment of those prophecies. ![]() In its entirety, the collected books of the Bible work together to describe our need for a Savior. It’s an integrated message system from outside our time domain. Every book of the Bible, every place name and strange detail work together to describe the God of the Universe and His passion for mankind. T he Bible is not merely a collection of writings by scattered desert nomads who combined the worship of two different gods named El and Yahweh into one God, who scratched their faith together from a mishmash of Canaanite beliefs. ![]()
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