It's Alive!! The Living Word
By Jessica Greer
There has always been and there always will be constant skepticism regarding whether the Bible is the actual Word of God.
What makes this book holy?
What makes the Bible superior to all other works of literature ever written?
Well, it is because this Book represents truth in many different layers.
The Bible contains historical truth which includes factual accounts of real people and actual chronologies of real events.
It also contains prophecies, and furthermore it contains the fulfillment of many of those prophecies. Many others are being fulfilled daily in your newspapers. Many are yet to come. Above all, this Book is an inspired work of God.
From the beginning of creation God has used men who will obey His voice to be the means to pass down traditional values and sustain a godly culture, and thus to produce a Savior.
The very famous scripture in John 1:1, 2 tells us: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.”
Jesus is the Word of God in physical form.
The Old Testament contains countless stories of human frailty, from Abraham taking God’s promise of an heir into his own hands with the Hagar episode to the controversial marriage of Hosea and Gomer.
Throughout the Old Testament God reflects the human nature inherited by all people.
He produces the Ten Commandments to set boundaries because He understands the character flaws that run in the human bloodstream.
Throughout continuing sagas of war, rape, prostitution, adultery, murder, betrayal, and sexual perversion God maintains His righteousness and grace and shows judgment and forgiveness.
Now, suppose the Bible was really written by men, as many try to maintain.
If men had been in control of producing such an influential book you would have the Q’uran or a book no one has ever heard of because it bears no impact on humanity.
Instead the Bible has been the most influential Book in history since its first published distribution in 1440 when the Gutenberg printer was invented.
It has changed lives and even nations.
In II Timothy 3:14-17 Paul commands Timothy saying: “But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
This scripture describes the Word of God as the breath of God.
All of life comes from God who is the Creator of the entire universe.
This same God used men to take down the words that He breathed, which means that the Bible has life. It is the living Word of God.
Many cultures pass down religion and history orally, and often they are morphed into something completely different from their origins.
But with God in control of this task the truth remained intact. This is apparent as we go into the New Testament.
The Apostle Paul, who wrote much of the New Testament, had a serious life-changing conversion. He was made blind so that he could see the spiritual realm.
From that point on he was issued an order by God to preach the gospel and write God’s truth into existence.
Finally we have the Apostle John who, while exiled on the island of Patmos for his faith in Jesus Christ, completed the Book of Revelation in which is a great deal of prophecy that has yet to be fulfilled.
The human story can be told through the timeline of the Bible.
Many scientific theories try to deny Biblical truth. Perhaps the greatest truth that cannot be refuted is God’s redemption of our souls from sin, paid for by the death of Jesus Christ.
The Bible was and is inspired by God.
As people read it daily for the first or 100th time, God faithfully speaks to them individually.
John 10:34-38 says: “Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I have said you are gods? If he called them 'gods,' to whom the Word of God came – and the Scripture cannot be broken – what about the One whom the Father set apart as His very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse Me of blasphemy because I said, 'I am God's Son'? Do not believe Me unless I do what my Father does. But if I do it, even though you do not believe Me, believe the miracles, that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father."
In this text Jesus explains to the Jews why He is justified as the Son of God.
In this same way the Bible is warranted as the Holy Book inspired by God.
Prophecies have been fulfilled. Life-changing experiences are continuous testimonies down through history to the present day.
The evidence is there if you acknowledge it.