Where We Got The Word Of God

[Sacred.Beautiful.]

Hello. ^.^

I was wondering if someone could explain for me how the Bible came to be considered the Word of God? Thank you.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

Here is an example from the bible, I hope it helps.

Mark 7
10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

So in this case, it is first referred to as a saying of Moses, quoting one of the ten commandments. Jesus gave an example of how they shirk their responsibility through tradition. Jesus then refers to what Moses said as "The Word of God."

There are also a lot of examples in Acts.

In terms of "how the bible in it's current form became the word of God" - that's related to church history and the old church councils.

 

[Aaron112]

that's related to church history and the old church councils.

Not really I think; Scripture Given by YHVH was before manmade churches got around to messing it up.

 

[Aaron112]

Hello. ^.^

I was wondering if someone could explain for me how the Bible came to be considered the Word of God? Thank you.

He Made It So.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

Not really I think; Scripture Given by YHVH was before manmade churches got around to messing it up.

Well, after the council of Nicea, canon lists started to develop.

After the reformation in late 1700s, the apocrypha were removed from the protestant bible and thus the 66 book version many are familiar with.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

That led to and was in much error.

YHVH put His Word as He Chose many years before Nicea or other manmade methods.

It is not permitted to debate in the Christian Advice area.

 

[Zceptre]

While I cannot give you an event by event recounting or detailed analysis of "how" over the course of history...

I can offer a few things.

One, God mentions His writing of the book, inside the book itself.

Malachi 3:16
Then those who feared the LORD spoke to one another, And the LORD listened and heard them; So a book of remembrance was written before Him For those who fear the LORD And who meditate on His name.

Secondly, you can check out Voddie Baucham's video. "Why you can believe the Bible - Voddie Baucham"
It is a reasonably well done presentation for a "calvinist." lol (I despise the condemning doctrines of calvinism - I was freed of its condemnations)
But I love Voddie anyway. I do believe him to be a genuine man trying to follow Jesus even if misguided in my estimations.

Third, Jesus Christ was reading from the Septuagint in the time of the Gospels. It is a Greek translation of the Old Testament (can be found for download in English translation from the Greek, but usually includes apocrypha books less trustworthy / not accepted by most scholars) and it was wrote by 70 scholars a few hundred years before the arrival of our Lord Jesus onto the scene translated from the Hebrew. The Jewish people used Greek in every life in Lord Jesus' time. They were under Greek rule.

The Dead Sea Scrolls have also validated the historical accuracy of the Old Testament. So you can look into those and there is a ton of conversation in the scholar world and everywhere else online with information on those. Thousands of articles by good Christians.

They have already mentioned the Council of Nicea, which would be a good digging adventure for study as they are the ones credited with selecting the books included and excluded in our completed Bible today.

King James of Scotland, then England, did not like the Tyndale translation nor the Geneva Bible and commissioned a new Bible to be made in 1604-ish. He had to fight the Catholic Church who did not believe common folk should be interpreting scripture for themselves. Some of those Catholics tried to murder him and his family right after the start of the translating called The Gunpowder Plot. It has since become the most printed and sold Bible (or book) in all of History and I don't think that record can be challenged or exceeded even up until now.

In the 1800's a Russian man named Ivan Panin discovered mathematical designs in the Old and New Testaments that validate its origins as far from being a coincidence or patch-work man-made collection of information. You can find a great deal of information about him and his work online also.

Simon Greenleaf put the Gospels on trial if you are interested in the trustworthiness of the New Testament scriptures. While it is not exactly "how" we got our Bible, it does fit the theme of validating the Word of God as trustworthy, so included him here at the end just in case.

Last but certainly not least, brother Chuck Missler has a lot of content across the internet now available and much of it on youtube and he does more than one presentation on the subject of validating the scriptures as "not" written by man.

You can search for either "Sevens in the Bible - Chuck Missler" or "Knowing God - An Extraterrestrial Message - Chuck Missler." Both are great lectures / videos but they are just good starters. He has quite a range of videos you can find if you haven't heard of him.

Happy digging.

 

[Paul4JC]

Hello. ^.^

I was wondering if someone could explain for me how the Bible came to be considered the Word of God? Thank you.

20 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation of things. 21 For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. [2Pe 1:20-21 NIV]

16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, [2Ti 3:16 NIV]

 

[com7fy8]

I was wondering if someone could explain for me how the Bible came to be considered the Word of God? Thank you.

What I have is that in history there were church leaders who had Bible manuscripts in Hebrew and in Greek. And they decided which ones were God's word and put these together into a Bible, first in Hebrew and in Greek. Then there were translations into English and other languages.

So, how did they decide which manuscripts were God's word? My understanding is they prayed and trusted God to guide them about which writings He approves of. Plus, they tested the writings to see if they fit with and agreed with each other. And they noted how Jesus Himself quoted or referred to earlier scriptures as being the word of God. And I think there were other things.

For me personally, I can see how every part of the Protestant Bible spiritually agrees with every other part. And I see how God's word is so obviously superior to what I can read that humans have written. The Bible calls our attention to all so more and better than what humans call attention to. This is according to my personal experience and understanding.

What matters is that we have the correct meaning of God's word > how we share with God in all the good which God's word is talking about. For example, God's word says to be ruled by God's own peace in our hearts > Colossians 3:15 < God's word here is talking about reality which Gods wants to share with us . . . so this is not only about having correct words, but we need to have what the words are talking about. And only God can make sure we really are obeying Him in this peace, and not only getting into some feeling or whatever of being submissive to Him. This is a miracle of God, that we obey Him in this peace.

"for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure." (Philippians 2:13)

And so God proves His word in us, by doing with us all that He knows He means by His word. And as God has done this proving of Himself through His word, this has gotten people's attention.

"'So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
. . It shall not return to Me void,
. . But it shall accomplish what I please,
. . And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.'"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Isaiah 55:11)

To me, this guarantees how God's word "shall" do all which God's word means to Him . . . not limited to how we humans might be able to understand it and "try" to do what we suppose He means. So, yes you can evaluate if the Bible is God's word, but if you find that it is, do not then limit yourself to how humans might be doing what they claim it means. And beware of yourself, of course!

"Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
. .And lean not on your own understanding;
. .In all your ways acknowledge Him,
. .And He shall direct your paths."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Proverbs 3:5-6)

 

[BobRyan]

Hello. ^.^

I was wondering if someone could explain for me how the Bible came to be considered the Word of God? Thank you.

2 Peter 1 - 19 And so we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts. 20 But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture becomes a matter of someone’s own interpretation, 21 for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

2 Tim 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness

Heb 3:
6 but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house—whose house we are, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the boast of our hope.
7 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,

“Today if you hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me,
As on the day of trial in the wilderness,​

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1 Thess 2:13 For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of mere men, but as what it really is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe. 14 For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you also endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews

 

[timf]

Rom 3:1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
Rom 3:2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.