Sacred Scripture is the written testimony of the divine Word, the canonical memory that attests to the event of Revelation. However, the Word of God precedes the Bible and surpasses it. That is why the centre of our faith isn’t just a book, but a salvation history and above all a person, Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh
The Bible is a form of God’s revelation to man, but the most complete form of that revelation is found in the person of Jesus Christ. Many treat scripture as stand alone, making Scripture cut off from the person of Jesus
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Bethlehem knew Jesus was the Promised King !
The Heavens Declared it.
And Scripture is where Jesus is revealed to us. On the road to Emaus how did Jesus teach the disciples? He opened Scripture to them. Holding Scripture as the sacred inerrant Word of God does not diminish Jesus - it leads us to Him
Very thoughtful. It is what distinguishes Christianity, from say Mad Mo Religion, which has belief that the Koran exists in arabic in a pre existent, archetype form. Christianity believes that Jesus himself was ‘the Word’, not a book being the word. Paul makes it clear the bible was the result of God inspiring the creation of the text. But the text was not pre existent. So what does that mean for a Christian. Simply that the written word speaks about the Word but is not the Word. It is to be revered, but it is not the subject or relic to worshipped in and of itself.