Word of God - Are they God's Words?

The number of times that I read or hear someone way "this is God's word" or this is the "word of God" is substantial. Most of the time the sayer or writer is referring specifically to words written in a book, the Bible. While I agree there are some wise statements and sayings in the Bible I cannot conclude that many of the things written in there are the "word of God". In fact this irritated me so bad that I did exhaustive studies of scriptures to see if when it says God's word or word of God what specifically it was referring to. You might the results to be surprising. However, I encourage you to study the Bible and see for yourself

Before I get to some of the findings I would like to ask a question. With over a thousand different translations of the Bible how would you suggest people, or even God for that matter know which one to believe or fulfill? If they say different things how do we know which one is the truth?

In the Old Testament the statement "word of God" or "words of God" appears 10 times. The Hebrew word for word is translated is 3 different words with one of them appearing 7 times. The word for "God" is actually 3 different Gods all from the root word #410 "EL". The word #430 Elohiym (a plural God", #433 Elowahh (appears in scriptures 57 times and always translated as God),

Word #461 is a noun, male. It was translated as "words" 43 times, "speeches" twice, "sayings" twice, "appointed" once, and "answered" once.

Word #1697 appeared 7 times. It was translated as "word" 807 times, "thing" 231 times, "matter" 63 times, "acts" 51"times, "chronicles" 38 times, "saying" 25 times, "commandment" 20 times and translated miscellaneously 204 times.

Interestingly enough not one of these generally or specifically refers to a written word or scripture. They for the most part refer to a living spoken word from God. The word chronicles  could be referring to the book of chronicles.

My personal interpretation of the "word of God" is a word that God has spoken to the hearer and not words written in a book by men and then translated across multiple languages by other men.

Does this mean that we shouldn't trust the Bible or have faith in God? Did Jesus say to trust or have faith in a book? No... It's about having faith in a good God with a good plan. There are many mysteries about the Bible and taking every word literally is very dangerous. Remember what the Jewish leaders did to Jesus? They took it straight out of their book which is a part of the Old Testament. In the case of Job one of the very few criticisms leveled against him was that He had said that his doctrine was pure. Was he finding out that it wasn't? Job was the greatest man in all the ease (east=eternity).

Many people use scriptures to twist peoples thinking and get them to believe exactly as they do. That's why we have thousands of denominations of Christianity stemming from 4 Gospels. God is love, God is good and God does not like people saying that He said something because someone wrote it in a book.

I have heard people tell other people that they are going to hell because God said so in this or that scripture. Here is who will go to heaven, whoever god wants... Here is who is going to hell... whoever God wants.. Here is who God wants to go to hell... No one! God is looking for people who want to DO GOOD in this world! Not because of a religion or man made doctrines but because they love God and want to help people. This is the highest of all spiritual laws.

God Bless You... and Merry Christmas!

Author: Bible New