How would we know that God so loved the world that He sent His Son unless we had the Book in which he gives that information?
Okay the Psalm, written by God? Thy word above all thy name: What you God says is above all. Not a book.
Okay, give me some words God has said that aren't in His Word. If the Holy Bible isn't the Word that God is talking about, then what is He talking about?
The Bible came after not before. If we had never had the book in which we are told about Jesus, we would still know because just as the Jews passed down their oral history for centuries before it was written, then so would the Christians have done the same. The problem arises because we have a book. People think that the book is it. The book is not it. Jesus is it. He is the Word.
The Bible is a set of books written over generations. These are revelations from God to his people.
The New Testament was written after the death and resurrection of Jesus. For instance Paul writes to the various churches where he has preached. He is admonishing or he is complimenting them on their adherence to what he has taught them. He did not give them writings, he gave them preaching. Oral.
The word in the Bible is the word of God. But John 1 is talking about Jesus as the Word, the second person of the Holy Trinity.
It is one of my favorite passages in the Bible.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
The Word is God. And Jesus is God.
I have no clue what words God has ever said that aren’t in the Bible. If you know please tell me.