Christians assemble together to do Bible study. It is sort of
a "Bible Information Clinic" where one teacher gets up to
"throw the Book at you." Hebrews 10:24,25 indicates that
the early Christians assembled together to "encourage" one
another, not just to do something exegetically and
interpretively and motivationally from the written word.
They came together to share with one another what the
Living Word, the Spirit of Christ, was doing in them; how
God was expressing Himself in them in their daily lives.
Jesus did not say, "I am the object of Bible information,
and you shall know it most thoroughly and accurately."
Rather, He said, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life"
(John 14:6); "I came that you might have Life and have it
most abundantly" (John 10:10).
What if there were no Bibles? What if the New
Testament had never been written, or never been preserved,
or never been canonized? What if all the Bibles were
destroyed from the face of the earth today? Should that
make any difference to Christianity? It should not!
Christianity IS Christ, the dynamic life of Jesus Christ, the
spiritual indwelling of God whereby He expresses Himself,
His character, in the highest of His creation unto His own
glory. The absence of the book would not forestall what
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