We can get an overview of how God has communicated over human history. If you believe that God’s Word is true, as Jesus Christ affirmed it, then we have a tool to frame every single one of God’s recorded contacts with humanity.
We know today that God has given us a record, written down, confirmed by Jesus Christ in person, and still in our hands today. God’s Word, the Scriptures, are given for us to know what God wants us to know. God tells us what He wants to shape our understanding and frame our analysis of current events as we live through the last days.
To best understand our study of God’s record of His communications with humanity, turn to Hebrews 1:1-2. Here is a summary of God’s inspired Word, the Scriptures or the Bible.
God, who at various times and in different ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds;
Consider this passage: God is making a huge statement about how He has and will communicate. Here is a simple guide to understanding whether we need to have angelic visits, visions, and voices to really be spiritual and really know we are hearing from God.
Jesus is the Word of God. Jesus came and lived and spoke as God with us, as Emmanuel, and as God the Son Incarnate.
What did Jesus say about the Bible? Jesus Christ authenticated our Bible.
First, He told the people that they had in their possession the Scriptures (Jn. 5:39). Jesus authenticated that the Hebrew Old Testament’s books that all the people had, read, and knew exactly what he was talking about were the only inspired revelation of God recorded for authoritative discussions of Divine Truth. Nothing else. There were many books of the Apocrypha that the Roman Catholic Church today recognizes that were known in Christ’s day, but Jesus Christ said those are NOT the Scriptures. Just the 39 books we still have in our Bibles. Those Jesus Christ said are God’s Word.
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