Is the Bible just a Guide Book?

You are pretty confused friend and have some basic Bible learning to do. You considering zipping your mouth, cease speaking on any topic concerning the LORD, until all you speak is coming straight from His Word. – “If any man speak, let he speak as of the oracles of God.” (1 Peter 4:11) Men make fools of themselves by speaking on topics they’re not thorough learned in:

“He that answereth (speaks on) a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.” Proverbs 18:13

Yes there are false “bibles” and yet they are simply counterfeiting the real Bible, which is, for the English speaking peoples, the preserved Word of God, the King James Bible (Psalms 12:6-7). And the Bible is much more than just a “guide” book. God told us He has magnified His Word even above His own name (Psalms 138:2). He told us He reveals Himself to us through His Word (Luke 24:27, 44; John 5:39-40).

The written Word of God, now enclosed, encased in the canon of Holy Scripture, is the way the worlds people knew all about the coming Messiah and could know who He was when He arrived (Isaiah 46:9-10). In the same way, the people of the world have been given by God His numerous prophetic utterances concerning the return of our LORD Jesus Christ for His people. How We Know the Bible is the only Holy Book 

If the Word is written in our hearts in the context you spoke of it, WHY did the LORD command His people repeatedly in His Word to “STUDY” it daily?

“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” 2 Timothy 2:15

One reason is so that they aren’t misled because He also told us that His Word is more divinely authoritative than God the Father literally speaking audibly (2 Peter 1:12-21). The Word of God is the “MORE sure word of prophecy.” (2 Peter 1:19) Why is the longest chapter in the whole Bible on the written Word if it’s just a loosely held, mere guide book? Dare we bear false witness against the LORD and lead others astray by this lukewarm, losey goosey view of the very oracles of God? (1 Peter 4:11) Here’s a mere sampling of what the prophet Isaiah says about the written Word of God:

“Bind up the testimony (written Word), seal the law among my disciples.” Isaiah 8:16

“To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” Isaiah 8:20

The LORD gave His people His words in tangible form to have them before them daily and so they’d fear Him all the days of their lives in this world:

“Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.” Deuteronomy 4:10

God gave us His Word in written format so they’d be no confusion and also, no excuse on Judgment Day (John 12:48; Romans 2:16; 1 Corinthians 14:33; 2 Timothy 3:16-17, etc.). The Word of God is the basis by which the LORD shall judge each of us.

Notice below the detailed instructions God gives His people concerning the place the Word of God is to play in their daily lives:

No man can have spiritual life without the words of God, which he is to live by:

“And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.” Luke 4:4

Are you living by the Word or just following the Devil’s hurd? (Matthew 7:13-14)

The Word of God is the spiritual food, the sustenance, the fuel for the wise virgins who are espoused (engaged) to Christ, the wayfaring saints of Christ who look “for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” (Hebrews 11:10)

The words of God are the spiritual food for God’s people:

“As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:” 1 Peter 2:2

The words of God are the divine health of His saints:

“My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” Proverbs 4:20-23

Christ’s disciples are to retain, to memorize His words:

“He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.” Proverbs 4:4

God’s people are to learn, know, meditate upon, and obey God’s Word:

“This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.” Joshua 1:8

Job savored, valued, esteemed the words of God more than the food needed to sustain his life on this earth:

“Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.” Job 23:12 

The psalmist counted God’s Word of much greater value than the fleeting gold and silver of this world:

God’s purpose for giving us His written Word is manifold, beginning with the transmission of divine information to us, so we can know Him and His ways and will etc.

Jesus IS the Word and how does Scripture tell us He chose to reveal Himself to us?

He reveals Himself to us through His Word and Spirit. That’s who we know about Him and can know Him.

What do you know about Jesus and how did you find those things out about Him? In what book is John 3:16 found? The koran? WHY did Jesus give us the parable of the Word, the seed, the heart soil if hearing the Word to know Him isn’t important and isn’t the way He reveals Himself to us? What are the 4 pillar purposes God gave us His Word?

“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.” 2 Timothy 3:16-17

• doctrine
• reproof
• correction
• instruction in righteousness

Paul told his understudy Timothy to do 3 things – R.E.D.:

“Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.” 1 Timothy 4:13 

Reading Psalm 119 will greatly increase your knowledge of this important topic.

Beware of Being a “Back it Up” Bubba

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To “back up” a belief with Scripture seems to really mean: “I believe ABC doctrine and I’m hell bent on finding Bible verses to prove it!” In other words someone like this doesn’t really care what the whole of Scripture teaches as much as they care to hold on to some pet doctrine (it’s usually something to justify their sin such as the falsehood of eternal security).

Some put forth their subjective beliefs and defend those beliefs by saying “I can back everything up with scripture.” Satan can too as we see him do when tempting Jesus (Luke 4). The devil used Scripture out of context as many today do. Are we merely backing up what WE say and what WE currently believe with Scripture or are we simply reading and diligently studying the whole counsel of Holy Scripture and letting GOD speak for Himself as we “compare spiritual things (Scripture, known truth) with spiritual things”? (1 Corinthians 2:13; 2 Timothy 2:15) Big difference. Think about that. Men and devils can deceitfully make the Bible say anything THEY want it to say but that doesn’t make it biblically sound and true. We must beware of our own tendency to espouse and hold on to philosophies, notions, and doctrines that do not line up with the whole counsel of God’s Word and we must be corrected (2 Timothy 3:16-17).

We must honestly examine our own selves to see WHY we believe WHAT we currently believe. Discernment, “rightly dividing the word of truth” seem to be concretely connected to searching the Scriptures as we see with the Bereans who tested Paul and all that he taught, right? (2 Timothy 2:15; Acts 17:10-11) Lots of people who talk about discernment trust their own subjective discernment instead of letting the written WORD be their two edged sword of discernment (Hebrews 4:12). Many believe they are discerning correctly and yet aren’t daily, diligently being grounded in the written Word, which God will never contradict (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:19-21).

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