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Scripture is the word commonly used for the Written Word of the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible.

TalkofJESUS.com would like to hear from you via your comments and questions on a NEW Series of brief posts in A.D. 2022.

Short Takes on Scripture – Tell us your thoughts about this brief quote from the Bible.

ONLY Scripture

The LORD God speaks – Doctrine of the Bible – 3
GOD SPEAKS! And who heard Him? What did the LORD God say to a man? Where can we see what the LORD said when God speaks?

“And you said: ‘Surely the LORD our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire. We have seen this day that God speaks with man; yet he still lives.
Deuteronomy 5:24 NKJV– the man Moses to the leaders of Israel

What is the ONLY BOOK where one made in the image of God can discern the TRUE words of WHAT GOD HAS SAID?

The HOLY Bible

IF you missed Part 1 on Bible Doctrine, you may want to take a look now at some of the history of the Bible, scholarly research AND IMPORTANT Definitions.

A pre-requisite Part 1

The BIBLE is HOLY

Introduction to this post

Did God really say..? – DOCTRINE of the BIBLE – 2

What choice would YOU have made in Eden?

The Bible unveils the word and purposes of God.
- Some refuse to believe Scripture
- While others will never consider its truth.
It is written…
blueletterbible.org references

THE LORD GOD SPEAKS!

The Word of God, The Word of Man & The Work of the Holy Spirit

The entire Scripture of God is divided into two parts: commandments and promises.
Martin Luther

1. The Word of God

God is HOLY. The LORD God speaks, but to whom? The Word of God speaks to all creation and is revealed to man, in His own image the LORD created us.

So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Genesis 1:27

The LORD God created us to:
- Love Him as God loves the world of His creation.
  - John 3:16
.. “Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness..”
Genesis 1:26

Love Him with all your heart.

AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.’
Mark 12:30 – answer of the Messiah Jesus to “What commandment is the foremost of all?”

“And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 10:12

Do what the LORD commands

J.I Packer points out in KNOWING GOD, four categories of God’s direct utterances to mankind (Adam & Eve):
1. command,
2. testimony,
3. prohibition with sanction appended,
4. and promise both favorable and unfavorable (blessing or curse).
The LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.
Out of the ground the LORD God caused every tree to grow that is pleasing to the sight and good for food..
Genesis 2:8-9a
- .. the tree of life was also in the midst of the garden,
- and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
but do what He would do; that is, to do good.

NOW where will we find the truth of good and evil?

Have we considered these truths from the Bible?

You are good and You do good;
Teach me Your statutes
Psalm 119:68

OR from the hissing of those who oppose the Lord?

Keeping in mind those categories just mentioned from ‘KNOWING GOD,’ may I again remind us and suggest the ONLY answer:

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV

2. The Word of a Man of God

Moses recorded the LAW as SPOKEN by the LORD.

YOU may have imagined that the LORD spoke to you in Paradise or walked with you in your daily life. Before SIN, we knew what was good because God spoke to us face to face.

So how does a man know what God said now that man has been separated from the Holy Presence of the LORD?

וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים אֶל־מֹשֶׁה אֶֽהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶֽהְיֶה וַיֹּאמֶר כֹּה תֹאמַר לִבְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל אֶֽהְיֶה שְׁלָחַנִי אֲלֵיכֶֽם׃

And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”;
and He said, “This is what you shall say
to the sons of Israel: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
Exodus 3:14 – I AM – YHWH, rendered LORD, which is derived from the verb HAYAH, to be;
H834 matches the Hebrew אֲשֶׁר (‘ăšer), who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.:

Yᵊhōvâ (I AM THAT I AM) Y H W H the existing ONE whose NAME IS too Holy to be spoken – יְהֹוָה

Do you believe the Law of Moses?

“For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”
John 5:46-47 NASB20 – a question of the Messiah Jesus

Authority of the Word after the Law

Besides Eden witnessed in the first book of Moses, I could also reintroduce you to the LORD in an awesome place above the heavens and earth in a place such as that revealed to the Apostle John by the risen and victorious Christ Jesus!

Witness from the Prophets like Elijah, Ezekiel and Daniel where the God brings created beings such as us, beneath the glorious Throne of the Almighty Lord God! And the LORD confirms His Word to men of flesh, Prophets who served Him faithfully on the earth.

Now Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and He let none of his words fail. .. And the LORD appeared again at Shiloh, because the LORD revealed Himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the word of the LORD.
1 Samuel 3:19,21

David and others record personal conversations, leadings of the Lord and prayers and songs worshiping God.

Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Chronicles 3:1

On occasions before and after David and after the resurrection of Jesus, man has received the Words of God and recorded them in Scripture.

Do you believe these men to whom God speaks?

3. Breathed out by the Holy Spirit

And the earth was a formless and desolate emptiness, and darkness was over the surface of the deep..

וְהָאָרֶץ הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ וְחֹשֶׁךְ עַל־פְּנֵי תְהוֹם וְרוּחַ אֱלֹהִים מְרַחֶפֶת עַל־פְּנֵי הַמָּֽיִם׃
Bereishit (Genesis) 1:2 Masoretic text
- The earth was a formless, desolate emptiness, complete darkness, a deep void lifeless and separate from God.
- And the SPRIRT OF GOD — the Other and ONLY LIFE separated from lifelessness and nothingness — Created!
  - the Spirit רוּחַ
  - of ‘ĕlōhîm אֱלֹהִים
  - moved רָחַף
God is HOLY! (Other.. Separate from HIS creation, even man.)

SO HOW does the Lord God communicate with MAN?

The Holy Spirit

THE LORD GOD IS OTHER!

(God is not a man. Unlike man He was not created — GOD IS that HE IS.
- Not like man and beast, not like plant or planet, not like the heavens which were void or the earth which was not yet.
“God is not a man, that He would lie,
Nor a son of man, that He would change His mind;
Has He said, and will He not do it?
Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good
Numbers 23:19

God Speaks. A Man hears.

Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not remain with man forever, because he is also flesh; nevertheless his days shall be 120 years.”
Genesis 6:3 – Moses records God’s words – בְּרֵאשִׁית

And since the days of Moses, the Holy Spirit of God commands certain men to record God’s HOLY WORD as SCRIPTURE.

(Write it down and tell other men what GOD HAS SAID.)

Spirit-filled men

Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him; and He took away some of the Spirit who was upon him and placed Him upon the seventy elders. And when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. Yet they did not do it again
Numbers 11:25 – the LORD gives the Holy Spirit to 70 elders of the Hebrews

Scripture records when God speaks to a Man given the Holy Spirit

Scripture reveals the words of the LORD which He spoke to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Bible. Joshua, various Judges and scribes, David and various kings, several prophets before Christ and Apostles after our Lord Jesus Christ ALL confirm the spoken and written HOLY Word of God we collectively refer to as The HOLY BIBLE.

“I and the Father are one.”
gospel of John 10:30

Jesus Christ — He Himself Other — testifies by the Holy Spirit to the truth of Scripture with the Authority of God the Father in ways no man could.

Gospel of Luke 3:

21 Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized, and while He was praying, heaven was opened,

and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form like a dove, and a voice came from heaven: “You are My beloved Son, in You I am well pleased.”

SUMMARY: GOD SPEAKS

Therefore, the DOCTRINE of the THE HOLY BIBLE teaches that SCRIPTURE IS:
1. The Word of God
2. Written by a Man of God and
3. Breathed out by the Holy Spirit of God
All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness
2 Timothy 3:16

DOCTRINE is teaching (for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness IF we choose its Truth.) Where will you find absolute truth, if not in the Holy Bible?

How much of the BIBLE must we believe?
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We will begin to address this in my next post on DOCTRINE.
To be continued..
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Please COMMENT or ask your question about this Doctrine.

Thank you, dear saint of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Roger
July 17, 2021
Did God really say..? – DOCTRINE of the BIBLE – 2
Did God really say ‘ALL SCRIPTURE?‘

What DOCTRINES do you choose?

Do you choose what God said selectively from among scriptures?

I am a theologian; that is, I study God. Yet how? And where do I seek answers about God? Which books of the Bible? What verses?

Who should I believe in my choices about the Doctrine of Scripture?
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You won't want to miss some definitions and important church history in Part 1 linked below 
or our first doctrinal post on the holiness of God.
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Introduction to Doctrine of the Bible – Part 2:

Questions about God

Imagine for a moment that YOU are the only man (adam) or woman, if you will.

I suppose the best place to meet the LORD is in Paradise — and here in the HOLY Presence of The Other, YOU are a man WITHOUT SIN!

Of course you recognize from Genesis in the LAW of Moses this Paradise you have never seen. Here you stand in Eden in the Presence of the LORD!

Observe this illustrative truth from the Holy Bible:

The LORD GOD is HOLY and until MAN (adam) sins, so were we.

Therefore we began this series with the Doctrine of the Holiness of God.

So here you imagine yourself — in Eden – walking with the Holy Lord God.

In the beginning, The LAW

(Do you believe the entire Creation narrative of Moses?)

אַף כִּֽי־אָמַר אֱלֹהִים

“Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’? ”
Genesis 3:1b CSB

Of course most of us will recognize what seems to be a legitimate question from near the beginning of the Bible when the serpent hissed against the LORD, ‘Did God really say..’

Yes, it would have been a legitimate question IF the questioner had not already known the TRUTH of the command of the LORD God. But Scripture records Satan’s cunning in Genesis . (He knew, but twisted truth.)

Sin is turning away from God

YOU questioned God’s truth.

Temptation of Eve

On behalf of all mankind for perpetuity, YOU crossed the line of obeying God’s commands.

Here you now wander into the darkness beyond Paradise .. continually asking, ‘DID GOD REALLY SAY..?’

And do not think, my fellow fallen saint, that you will choose what is TRUE without seeking the Lord.

Do not ask the one who hisses against Jesus Christ, any tempter who doubts what God said, since the LORD’s command to obey is what they will not do.

SO WHERE DO WE FIND TRUTH?

DOCTRINE – What do you believe?

Do you choose what God said?

Where do you draw your line in the sand about believing the Doctrines of the Bible?
Some preachers don’t believe in Satan or some truths about Christ. (What else won’t they believe from Holy Scripture?)
Roger@talkofJesus.com

ALL of these TRUTHS are witnessed in Scripture. They give mortals many glances at Paradise and eternal life with the LORD God.

You just imagined yourself to be in the Presence of the Lord in Eden on behalf of the generations, but you crossed the line and wandered into the darkness of sin.

O man! I have asked myself, “Did God really say? Then I made excuses to the LORD for my sin.”

What is the ONLY BOOK where one made in the image of God can discern the TRUE words of WHAT GOD HAS SAID?

The HOLY Bible
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To be continued...
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NEXT: More in Doctrine of the Bible – 3
July 10, 2021
D.C. al Coda – (Deuteronomy Calls out the Ending)
Da Capo al Coda

For those of you who are not musicians: D.C. al Coda directs us to GO BACK to the BEGINNING then where indicated, GO towards the ENDING. (It’s new music resolving into an eventual final ending.)

Now you ask, what does that have to do with Scripture?

ANSWER: Scripture frequently takes us back to what we ought to have already known to interpret what will happen in the ending soon before us.

Deuteronomy Calls out the ending

Chosen or Not – Blessed or Cursed?

THE LORD warned us through Scripture (time and time again):

IF you do this, then you are blessed.

HOWEVER if you do that, then you are cursed.

History bears witness to God’s word

וַיִּשְׁמַע יְהוָה בְּקוֹל אֵלִיָּהוּ וַתָּשָׁב נֶֽפֶשׁ־הַיֶּלֶד עַל־קִרְבּוֹ וַיֶּֽחִי׃

And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
1 Kings 17:22

We continue our look back at Summer Scriptural Reruns asking questions and providing answers to life and death questions.

Although recent focus has been on Jews who ought to have known better from Scripture, today in the first of three reruns, the Messiah Jesus also points us to other examples in Scripture.

Who will save you from DEATH?

Scriptures

“But I say to you in truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah.. and yet Elijah was sent to none of them..
Luke 4:25a,26a NASB20

The Messiah Jesus tells us to go back to Scripture if you want to understand meaning. D.C. al Coda Read it again, then skip ahead from the Cross to the end.

1 Kings 17

Matthew 25

Original talkofJesus.com post

Three Widows & a Widower

Original post April 10, 2014 – Topic: Faith after death

Summer 2021 AD {Scriptural} Reruns
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Stay tuned from more Summer of 2021 Reruns from talkofJESUS.com

(ditto: Summer 2022 – more to come)
July 6, 2021