The Word of God

If you'll let it, this little page on the Word of God will knock your socks off. It will change your life, change your view of yourself, and bring you closer to God.

It will excite you and give you dramatic new insight into the Scriptures. It will make your faith impervious to the attacks of modern skeptics.

This page is Scriptural. This page is historical.

Chances are, though, that you won't like it and you'll reject it, no matter how much you claim to believe the Bible.

But, boy, if you actually listen to this …

What Is the Word?

Today, if a Christians says, "I've been getting into the Word," we know he means he's been reading the Bible. If you ask him if he's got the Word of God, he'll check to see if he has his Bible.

It is normal for us to mean the Bible when we say "the Word."

But does the Bible agree with us?

My Search Begins

A decade ago Rose Creek Village had a visitor that repeatedly would say, "I'm just giving you the Word." Although normally I would have been thrilled to hear a person say that, I didn't like hearing it from this visitor.

Late one night during his visit a thought struck me. What if "the Word of God" and "the Bible" are not interchangeable terms?

Normally, when I think something like that, I'll rummage through the Bible in my mind. God often brings something to my remembrance to combat seemingly heretical thoughts like the one I'd just had.

Nothing. I couldn't think of a single verse where the Bible uses "the Word of God" as a noun meaning "the collection of Scriptural books."

No problem. This was the late 1990's. It was the computer age, and I had a Bible on my computer.

Even thought it was late and I was headed to bed, I sat down at the computer, typed in word, and let my Bible program kick up every verse in the New Testament with the word "word" in it.

Then I began to read.

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