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To: ex-snook; NYer; wombtotomb; RGPII; Iscool; Kolokotronis; AngieGal; Lilllabettt
Jesus is the Word. The Bible is not the Word. It is an account of the Word.This brings up a number of doctrinal issues which really get down to grammar and language, names, meaning, and identity.

The Word is an interesting phrase well known to the Jews prior to the Incarnation in their Targums (as the MEMRA). As such I can identify the Word as a mechanism by which God communicates to His Creation. I also identify it with our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus. I also identify it with a source for a thinking process which is used by God the Holy Spirit as we grow in Him.

Scripture, I identify with the Word of God. Written form of His Word which is given by God.

The Bible is an anthology of some 66 books of Scripture recognized by assemblies of believers, by the apostles, as being identifiable with Scripture containing His Word.

Jesus is human and divine. There have been theophanies throughout human history and the second person of the Godhead, whom we know today as our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus is physically seated in heaven at the right hand of the Father. He is also identified as the Word, and interestingly the Son indwelt the Father during the Incarnation, expressing the deity of the Son.

53 posted on 11/27/2008 7:27:28 PM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Cvengr; Salvation; ex-snook; NYer; wombtotomb; RGPII; Iscool; Kolokotronis; AngieGal; ...

Interesting link here, where in Scripture is ? I’m not saying there isn’t an answer but it might take some work to find a reference.

“Matthew 11:21, “Woe to thee, Corozain...For if in Tyre and Sidon had been worked the miracles that have been worked in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.”

What are these miracles in Corozain? Where is the reference?

Matthew 23:2, “The Scribes and the Pharisees have sat on the chair of Moses.”

Where is this ‘chair of Moses’ referenced in Scripture?

Acts 20:35, “In all things I have shown you that by so toiling you ought to help the weak and REMEMBER the Word of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Show me the verse where Jesus said these words.

Matthew 2:23, “And He went and settled in a town called Nazareth; that there might be fulfilled what was spoken through the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.”

In what verse did the prophets say this?”

And more at

- http://www.thecatholictreasurechest.com/whereis.htm


54 posted on 11/27/2008 7:36:57 PM PST by RGPII
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To: Cvengr
**The Bible is an anthology of some 66 books ** -- Wrong

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55 posted on 11/27/2008 7:51:01 PM PST by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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