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The Holy Scripture is the inspired word of God and is a written expression of the Holy Tradition that preceded

NOTHING preceded God'S Word - IT Always WAS and Always WIlL BE.

"I AM the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,: says The Lord, "Who IS - and Who WAS - and Who IS to come, THE ALMIGHTY".

Exodus 3:14 "God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.'"

John 8:24 I told you that you would die in your sins; if you DO NOT BELIEVE [THE ONE I claim to be], you will indeed die in your sins.

JESUS IS The WORD, JESUS WAS The WORD, JESUS will ALWAYS Be The Word.

NOTHING came BEFORE HIM nor nothing AFTER HIM. HE is The GREAT I AM.

There was NO TRADITION BEFORE HIM and it will be burnt up because there will be NO TRADITION AFTER HIM.

So, as a reminder, here's HIS Words again about anyone who believes otherwise as they sealed their own fate.

John 8:24 "I told you that YOU WOULD DIE IN YOUR SINS; if you DO NOT BELIEVE [THE ONE I claim to be], you will INDEED die in your sins".

NOTHING preceded God'S Word - IT Always WAS and Always WIlL BE. "I AM the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,: says The Lord..."

You confuse the Second Person of the Trinity, Jesus Christ, the Eternal Word, with the Holy Scripture. Christ is the Word of God, -- that is, like words that you speak, something unmade by you yet sent by you as good as you to reach us. That, roughly, is how Christ is at time described as The Word, starting with St. John's preamble.

The Holy Scripture is a set of books and letters written by various prophets, Holy Apostles and other clergy at historical times for a historical purpose in historical contexts that existed. The words they wrote are inspired by God and inerrant, but they exist in history. The phrase, to pick one example, "The cloak that I left at Troas, with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, especially the parchments" (2 Timothy 4:13) did not pre-exist neither the cloak or the parchments in question, let alone the entirety of Creation.