Word of God - Self-Evidence

February 22, 2009, 1:04 pm by dc-agape.

The Word of God has many things to say about itself.  The concept of believing what Word of God says about itself is difficult to grasp for those without the god bias.  Think about it, do you trust a human that tells you “I do not lie”?  Of course, not…you know that just saying the “I don’t lie” line is a lie.  It works the same way when someone tells you “I’m flawless”.  When someone uses that line, immediately any flaw is revealed.  But the Word of God does exactly that.

Proverbs 30:5 Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield to those you take refuge in him.

Rev 19:9 Then the angel said to me, “Write; ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!’”  And he added, “These are the true words of God.”

If a human were to tell you this, would you believe it?  Yet that is exactly what the Bible is!  It is men, thousands of years ago, telling you exactly this.  The faith that these words were inspired by YWHW helps, but it is still word of men.  You must be extremely gullible to trust someone who uses these phrases.

Another verse along the same vein of reasoning is:

John 10:35 If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came – and the scripture cannot be broken – what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world?  Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, “I am ‘God’s son’?

This verse has a lot of different topics in, but just focus on the “scripture cannot be broken”.  Here the Apostle John tells you that the Word of God cannot be broken.  He is saying that it is reliable.  This is similar to the first two verses, when someone says that they are reliable…that statement is tested to insure that reliability is a true virtue of the speaker.  How reliable is the Word of God?  How many times does it not fulfill a promise?  What about this verse:

Luke 11:9-10 “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

Christians need to ask some tough questions.   Does this verse prove that the Word of God is reliable?  That the Word of God is flawless?  And no “sometimes the answer is no” does not justify this verse as being reliable.  Instead, it proves that this verse is not reliable.  This verse clearly says that if you ask, you will receive!  And the phrase “God works in mysterious ways” does not cover this verse either.  So the Word of God is neither flawless, nor reliable, nor true.  Only with the god bias can someone be so gullible to ignore these contradictions.

Worse, after recognizing that the Word of God is not flawless, reliable, or true, there is this verse:

1^st Thess 2:13 And we also thank God continuously because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as the word of God, which is at work in you because you believe.

Here Paul is thankful that the Thessalonicans accepted the words of men (Paul) as words of God.  So in the end humans must trust the Word of God as the Word of God from the word of men. 

The best contradition about the Word of God is here:

Ephesians 6:14-15 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace.

This set of verses claims that the Word of God is peaceful.  Yet the Salvation Army believes that Spiritual Warriors exist.  Is that peaceful?  What about the Crusades (middle-ages.org)?  Was that peaceful?  Is the Phelps family peaceful (Daily Kos)?  What about the ex-VP candidate Palin saying that the war in Iraq was “God’s will – Religion Dispatches”, how peaceful was that concept?  It is quite obvious if the Word of God is inerrant and peaceful then these “Christians” are misguided.  Yet “True Christians” do nothing to make their religion peaceful!

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