Makes perfect sense to me, MarkBsnr! The Words of Christ are directly quoted throughout the Four Gospels, in many cases running for more than a page length, interrupted. (My Bible prints the Lord's Words in redface type, so this is easy to see.)
Thank you again for writing!
Sorry Mark!
Our separated friends often mix up the Word (Jesus) with the word (Scripture) and get them confused. When you are your own Pope and eat a heaping bowl of YOPIOS each day, it is obviously easy to do. As so many demonstrate.
See, what I am having a hard time understanding in these few thread posts is the idea that - humor me here - someone had a tape recorder or took dictation whenever Jesus spoke?
Did not those inspired by the HOLY SPIRIT of GOD write down what HE brought to their minds - exactly like Jesus said HE would? And did not that same Holy Spirit also inspire and guide the hand and voice of the others he also used to construct the Holy Scriptures we have that guide us Christians to this day??? Paul himself spoke about new converts who needed to graduate from the "milk" of the word - as newborn babies - into the "meat" of the further doctrine and mysteries explained and expounded from that base of the gospel. Tell me, why did the Lord even bother to include the writings of Paul and Peter and John, etc. outside of the specific words of Jesus in the bible? Could it mean he had more for us to understand and know about the Christian life?