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Chapter 4
Chapter 4 : Sacred Scripture, the Word of the Lord
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Sacred Scripture, the Word, Is Divine Truth Itself189
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T is on everyone’s lips that the Word comes from God, is divinely
inspired, and is therefore holy. Nonetheless, until now we have not
known where the divinity is in the Word. At the literal level the Word
seems like poor writing in a strange style, lacking the sublime and lucid
quality that modern works seem to have.
There are people who can easily fall into the wrong perspective on
the Word and into contempt for it—people who respect nature more
than God or as God and who therefore think under the influence of
themselves and their own identity rather than the influence of heaven
from the Lord. When people like this read the Word they are prone to
say to themselves, “What is this? What is that? Is this divine? Would a
God who had infinite wisdom be capable of talking this way? Where is its
holiness? Where else could the holiness come from except [the reader’s]
religious attitudes and convictions?”190 People who think this way are not keeping in mind that it was the
Lord Jehovah, the God of heaven and earth, who spoke the Word
through Moses and the prophets. The Word could not be anything but
divine truth, for what the Lord Jehovah himself says is divine truth. They
are also not keeping in mind that the Lord the Savior, who is the same as
Jehovah, spoke the Word to the Gospel writers. Much of it came from his
own mouth, and the rest came from the Spirit of his mouth (which is the
Holy Spirit) through his twelve apostles.