WHEN SOMEBODY SAYS, "JESUS IS THE WORD OF GOD NOT SCRIPTURE"
The argument that Jesus is the word of God not the Bible is true
in this sense. The Bible cannot be the word unless Jesus is. In the
Bible we find Jesus as we would in a letter he personally wrote. In
other words the Bible only means anything because Jesus expresses
himself in it by inspiring it. So it is because Jesus is the
word that the Bible is.
A distortion of this argument is rife. Liars argue that Jesus is the
word not the Bible in an attempt to find an excuse for ignoring
something the Bible says.
In Matthew 15:6 Jesus rules out using religion as an excuse for
making anything written in the word void. He says void or of no
effect. He is not talking about contradicting it but only about
ignoring it. He warns it is the commandment of God and must be
obeyed.
The Gospel of John says Jesus is the word of God in flesh. In John
10:35 Jesus says the word of God is the scripture. So both are the
message from God. The Bible is the word of Jesus so there is no
disconnect between Jesus being the word and it being the word. And
Jesus says the scripture cannot be broken or wrong.
The argument that God alone is the one who makes mistakes so
there must be mistakes in the Bible is bizarre. Surely God can
produce an infallible Bible! The Bible surely might be
infallible simply because God is. All arguments that Jesus or
God alone is unerring and not a book ultimately presume that God
despite being infallible cannot give unerring information. It
is nothing more than a liberalist lie. It is an excuse for
saying man knows better than any Bible. But even if the Bible errs
it does not follow that any Church or preacher is smarter or more
correct than it. Prideful arrogance is not an attractive trait
and liberals are full of it.