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I think I will go one by one with the questions so we can start from somewhere!
Do you believe bible you have now is word of God?
Adding to what Fr. Matt said, Jesus never even instructed the Apostles to produce a Bible and call it the "Word of God." As Fr. Matt said, Apostle John, who was a mystical writer, refers to Christ as "the Word" who was with the Father from the beginning. (John 1)
We have a book which gives us a written account of parts of the life of Jesus which are important to know. As John said, if everything that Jesus ever did or said was written down, there would not be enough books in the world to contain it all. You surely don't think that everything that Christ Jesus taught the Apostle is only in the Bible???
In the book of Acts, after Christ resurrected, it says that He spent 40 days with them, teaching them, yet we have absolutely no record at all of what Christ taught them. What you are doing, sir, and I mean no offense by saying this, is acting like one of the Protestant sects we constantly have to deal with. They refuse to believe anything except that which is in the Bible, and their own interpretation to boot. This ignores the fact that there were at least 3,000 days and nights of ministry in which Christ lived with, spoke with, and taught his Apostles and disciples and only a very small fraction of it has been recorded.
In addition, of the many letters which were written up until the Bible was completed at the Council of Carthage in the fourth century, many of them were discarded as spurious reports. Only that which could be verified as the continuing teaching of the Apostles, i.e. that which was taught from the beginning, was eventually allowed in.
Fr. Matt is correct. Jesus is the living Word of God.
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