{"id":15133,"date":"2024-10-27T19:39:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T00:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15133"},"modified":"2024-10-28T19:44:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T00:44:26","slug":"when-did-the-word-become-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15133\/when-did-the-word-become-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"When did The Word become The Bible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I know Christians tend to use the phrase &#8220;the Word&#8221; to mean &#8220;the Bible&#8221; but how can they read John 1:1 and hold onto that meaning?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Allison<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">=========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hi Allison,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Short answer &#8211; I do not know how they can do that.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>One of the many strange elements of the Christian religion is the doctrine that the Bible is the Word of God.\u00a0 \u00a0Many Christian ministers teach it, and are confident in doing so, even though the Bible never claims to be the Word of God.\u00a0 In fact, the Bible plainly tells us that it is NOT the Word of God, but that the Word of God is a person &#8211; Jesus Christ, the Son of God.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>I don&#8217;t know where or when the doctrine began which holds that the Word of God is a thing, the Bible, but it would be a blessing if God&#8217;s people would stick with what the Bible actually says about the Word and ignore the ministers who are teaching them nonsense.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_books.html?tname=word\">https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_books.html?tname=word<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Pastor John<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tell us what you think:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1851062247700726216\">https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1851062247700726216<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know Christians tend to use the phrase &#8220;the Word&#8221; to mean &#8220;the Bible&#8221; but how can they read John 1:1 and hold onto that meaning? Allison ========= Hi Allison, Short answer &#8211; I do not know how they can do that. One of the many strange elements of the Christian religion is the doctrine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15135,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15133\/revisions\/15135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}