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***”Tell me about the direct word of God. How did it get to the pages of your Bible? Tell me about the exact process.”***

There is a school of thought (NOT derived from Protestant sources) that suggest the answer to this question can be found in Scripture itself.

~”Bereshit Bara Elohim Et.....”~ begins the Book of Genesis. Of particular interest is the little word “Et” spelled in Hebrew “Aleph-Tav.” The Rabbis of the Zohar see the letters of the Aleph-Bet in much the same way as we look at the elements of the Periodic Table. They regard them as the foundational building block of the universe itself.

In reading the first line of Genesis, it is interesting to note that the word “Et” in addition to being a marker denoting specificity (*the* heavens and *the* earth) is also an acronym for the Aleph-Bet itself. Read in this way, the opening would be “In a beginning God created the Aleph-Bet...”

The concept fills out even further in the New Testament with the Gospel of John referring to Christ as “Logos” - pre-exsting and causitive of the creation of which we are part.

This theme is repeated in the Book of Revelation with the statement “I Am the Alpha and the Omega.” (The Greek equivalents of Aleph and Tav.)

The Word of God did not “get to the pages of your Bible”(sic) - it is the Logos manifested as Scripture. This is how we can be sure of the authenticity of Y’Shua, the Christ, as He is the perfect fulfillment of a document that is both inspired and revelatory. Like the Logos Himself, the manifestation of Scripture only occurs from our perspective, not the timelessness of the divine Mind.

In short, the Word of God did not need a “process” to “get to the pages of your Bible.” They are one in the same, and pre-existed our limited temporal perception of them.

***”Tell me about the direct word of God. How did it get to the pages of your Bible? Tell me about the exact process.”*** There is a school of thought (NOT derived from Protestant sources) that suggest the answer to this question can be found in Scripture itself. ~”Bereshit Bara Elohim Et.....”~ begins the Book of Genesis. Of particular interest is the little word “Et” spelled in Hebrew “Aleph-Tav.” The Rabbis of the Zohar see the letters of the Aleph-Bet in much the same way as we look at the elements of the Periodic Table. They regard them as the foundational building block of the universe itself.

There is the claim that God dictated the Torah to Moses, something that I am willing to consider. But as for the rest?

The concept fills out even further in the New Testament with the Gospel of John referring to Christ as “Logos” - pre-exsting and causitive of the creation of which we are part.

John 1 is pretty explicit in explaining that the Word is actually Jesus Christ Himself, not the written word.

In short, the Word of God did not need a “process” to “get to the pages of your Bible.” They are one in the same, and pre-existed our limited temporal perception of them.

With the knowledge that we have of the changes in the various NT books, with the knowledge that we have of the selection of Scripture by the Church, with the knowledge of the various faulty (sometimes deliberately faulty) translations, we have to focus back in the idea that Jesus is the Word; scripture is the word.

Well put.

It is interesting that the

Vatican’s power mongering took deep root at the Council several hundred years after Christ . . . which made decisions on the composition of The Canon.

And, it’s interesting that such a conflab somewhat parallels I Cor 12-14 about deciding on what msg ostensibly via Holy Spirit in the Church Era really qualifies.