When the Bible says "the word of God," with "word" capitalized or not, I cannot for anything firgure out when it means Jesus, and when it means the Bible, and when it means something elso that God has said. Can anyone help me out here? I used to assume that anywhere other than the beginning of John, it meant Scripture, but reading some of these verses in context, I'm getting more and more confused about which meaning is meant in any given verse.
As an example, in Hebrews 4:11-13 it says:
Now, I have always been tought that that meant the Bible, and perhaps it does, but if so it could not have been done in a more ambigous manner, switching seamlessly between "the word" and "Him." If that "word" means Scripture, perhaps it's less ambigous in other languages?
As an example, in Hebrews 4:11-13 it says:
It then goes on to speak of how Jesus is our High Preist.hebrews said:Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. 12For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
Now, I have always been tought that that meant the Bible, and perhaps it does, but if so it could not have been done in a more ambigous manner, switching seamlessly between "the word" and "Him." If that "word" means Scripture, perhaps it's less ambigous in other languages?