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WhatTheBibleSaysAboutItselfJohn 17:17: "Your word is truth." Hebrews 4:12: "For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart." Implication: God's Word convicts us and helps us to see how we can continually become more like Christ. Acts 17:11: "Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true." Implication: People who examine and accept the Word are of more noble character than those who don't. 1 Corinthians 2:13: "This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words." Implication: The Spirit teaches and explains using the Word. John 14:6: 'Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."' Negative implication: People who, out of no fault of their own, never encounter the Gospel will burn in Hell for all eternity. This consequence is out of alignment with a loving and just God. 1 Corinthians 14:37: "If anyone thinks they are a prophet or otherwise gifted by the Spirit, let them acknowledge that what I am writing to you is the Lord’s command." Implication: Paul encourages others who are close to God to confirm the Word that he writes. Ephesians 3:4-5: In reading this, then, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to people in other generations as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to God's holy apostles and prophets. Implication: The Spirit reveals what was hidden in the Old Testament. 2 Timothy 3:16: "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness..." Implication: Even if some passages in Scripture were meant for a specific people at a specific time there is still something we can apply from it for our own lives. 2 Peter 1:20-21: "Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit." Implication: Although written by human authors, the words written are from God through the Spirit. 2 Peter 3:15-16: "Bear in mind that our Lord's patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction." Implication: Ignorant and unstable people distort the meaning of Scripture, which will destroy them and lead others astray. |