The Bible: 3

The Bible: 3
Brad Reiches
Jun 14 2006 07:00PM

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Thursday, June 15, 2006

GodThoughts Wired! 

"The Bible"

PART 3

The third of the nine essential components that give us a complete definition of the Bible is: 

3.  Written Form (words).

"The word of God..."

Hebrews 4:12a

 By definition the Bible is a book, a collection of words.  To say that many books have been written since the canon was completed would be a vast understatement.  Perhaps tens of millions of books have been written since the Bible was completed yet, to this day the Bible remains unique, one of a kind.  Indeed, authors come and go, some quite prolific.  But God only wrote one book

Completed in the mid-300's, the Bible remains a best-seller despite being roughly 1,700 years old.  Two Greek terms describe the words of the New Testament and Septuagint (Greek translation of the Old Testament).  "Logos" and "Rhema."  In many cases their meanings overlap.  Sometimes they are virtually synonymous.  At other times however, their meanings are quite distinct, and it is then that the Bible separates itself from ALL OTHER BOOKS.

"In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God...And the Logos became flesh and dwelt among us" (John 1:1; 14).

"Faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the rhema of Christ...Man does not live on bread alone, but by every rhema that proceeds out of the mouth of God" (Romans 10:17; Matthew 4:4).

Unlike every other book, "the logos of God is living and active..." (see Hebrews 4:12).  It carries inherent power to "transform" lives (see Romans 12:1-2).  Inherent power?  Absolutely!  "The worlds were prepared by the rhema of God..." (see Hebrews 11:3).  "Then God said..." (see Genesis1:3, 6, 9, 11, 14, 20,24, 26).  God literally "spoke" all of creation into existence.

"Heaven and earth will pass away, but My logos shall never pass away"

Mark 13:31