The Bible, the Word of God? Alternative Survey (Holy Spirit, quote, Apostle)
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I decided to create another thread similar to one that was posted earlier today on the same topic, because I feel that the tone and language used in the other poll does not give people, including myself, ample opportunity to register their opinion or to select an option that best describes or reflects what they believe.
Last edited by TheRealAngelion; 06-01-2007 at 06:53 PM..
I believe the Bible is the literal inherent Word of God, protected my Him triugh the ages.
I do believe when some one spoke in metaphors in the Word it is directly spoken of an addressed. I do not believe everyone who reads the Word is able to understand it, but that that can gleed what they need to from it, to come to a fuller understanding. Only those indwelt, can fully understand what God has set aside for them.
MBG
But really could be better stated as the Bible is the literal Word of God as was penned by man through the Holy Spirit. The authors were inspired through the Holy Spirit and wrote what God wanted them to write. It is literal. It is without error. It is truth.
The Bible is the Word of God, but not every passage is literal.
I have been thinking about that, but those who typically fall into the "literalist" camp believe that all scripture is God's words and that men were simply used as vessels to articulate in writing what God wanted people to know. The debate is not so much about what was literally meant or intended versus what was literally or actually said, IMO. For example, according to Matthew 18:9, Jesus is recorded as saying "If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it from you..." Regardless of whether one actually thinks Jesus literally intended for people to pluck their eye out (which is more an argument about interpretation IMO), are these the literal words of Jesus is the question. And the literalist view of scripture is that they are his words. Likewise, those who take a literal view of the Bible as the "word of God," would also hold that the personal letters of apostles like Paul, are God's words too and not necessarily Paul's own words and beliefs.
Last edited by TheRealAngelion; 06-02-2007 at 09:41 AM..
There's one thing about the Bible being the literal word of God that makes no sense to me. That sounds like the human beings who actually wrote the Bible were just performing a task similar to that of a court reporter who types in the exact testimony during a trial in order to preserve a written record of the proceedings. Surely no one believes that these various authors just sat there writing God's exact words while he spoke to them in their native language but "literal" means exactly that.
One has to believe that he is being instructed by God.
Furthermore - and this is the tricky part - one has to believe that those who believed they were instructed by God actually were instructed by God.
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