the gospel is the "word" (Matt. 13:19; Col. 4:3; I Peter 3:1),
the "word of God" (Acts 4:31; I Cor. 14:36; Phil. 1:14; I
Thess. 2:13), the "word of truth" (II Timothy 2:15), the
"word of life" (Phil. 2:16), the "word of reconciliation" (II
Corinthians 5:19), the "word of salvation" (Acts 13:26), or
the "word of faith" (Romans 10:8).
How can it be that we have been so thoroughly
propagandized by the Judeo-Christian book-religion, that
we so unquestioningly refer to the Bible as the "word of
God," and mistakenly identify most references within
Scripture to the "word" as references to the Bible instead of
to Jesus Christ or to the gospel of Christ? Book-religion is
very pervasive!
None of those who wrote, by the inspired divine
influence of God, the writings that now comprise the
compilation of writings that we call the Bible; none of them
apparently ever conceived that their writings would be
collected and canonized into a book called "The Bible" or
"The Scriptures," which would then be referred to as the
"Word of God." That is not to say that they were not aware
of God's influence in their writing, but whenever they refer
to the "word" (either logos or rhema), or to the "writings"
(either gramma or graphe), or to the scrolls or books
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