What is the Bible?
/The subject comes up over and over in traditional Christian circles, and by traditional Christian circles, I mean Christianity that has only existed in said form for a few hundred years. The Bible is the Word of God, repeated ad nauseam from the pulpit, or spoken from people who claim to be experts of apologetic banter. People base their entire relationships upon whether or not someone believes that the Bible is the Word of God, whole denominations are built upon this premise.
But it is all a lie.
I made a video a few months ago and posted it to YouTube and it was a poem of sorts, not your traditional poem, but a narration explaining my primary perspective on this.
But I wanted to take a minute to really, truly get down to what I believe the Bible is. Because so many people are obsessed with it as a symbol. People burn them because it offends others, along with the Flag of the United States, they do this because it triggers the most conservative of all of us. But what if the Bible is not what we were taught?
Imagine how much freer we would be if we were never offended. Like truly never offended by anything at anytime. If we weren’t offended at all the power of the offense is drained away and loses all of its ability to trigger. This is true about racial relations and other things as well. If the protesters knew they couldn’t offend us by burning Bibles or flags, their power is removed.
What if we laughed in the face of offense?
Like truly let out a belly chortle when someone sought to hurt or offend us? The power removed from such an item and we would truly be free, in the truest sense of the word!
So getting back to my original topic of the Bible, What is the Bible?
Here is my thoughts on what it is and who the Word of God truly is.
The Bible didn't take on flesh for us, The Bible didn't Vicariously live as us, The Bible didn't die with us. The Bible wasn't resurrected with us. The Bible isn't the Word of God... Only Jesus is.
It is truth from the human perspective looking at God, Jesus is the Truth from God's perspective looking at us.
The biblio-idolatry of the American church is heartbreaking because most of us don't truly realize what the Bible is. It is truth from the human perspective looking at God, Jesus is the Truth from God's perspective looking at us.
John 1 is pretty clear on the identity of the Word of God, and those who argue that the Bible is the Word of God can find no evidence of that assertion in the book they claim to be the Word of God. The Bible in it’s current form has only existed for a few hundred years, considering Johannes Gutenberg first published it in 1450. Almost 1500 years after Jesus, so if it was “The Word of God” why wasn’t it available sooner? Do you think God abandoned everyone that didn’t have the Bible for 1500 years?
You are the very Word of God too, because you are in the Word of God and the Word of God is in you. Written on your hearts, and set as a seal on your arm and your head. You look like Jesus, I look like Jesus.
Remove the offense you might feel and be as a full grown human that is found in Christ.