God's Word (part 1)
A key pointer to who God is, is what He says about Himself (The masculine description "He" doesn't mean God is masculine, because God transcends gender).
What is God's word? Firstly, the Bible strictly cannot be described as God's word. The Bible itself says God's word is alive (Hebrews 4:12). In other words, God's word is a person. The Bible can more accurately be called a detailed description of God's word.
Many still misunderstand the essence of what the Bible stands for today. I have heard accusations of alterations, misrepresentation and plain blatant lies written within its pages. What we need to do is zoom out of the micro details and look at a vast effort, over thousands of years, in millions of words, within thousands of chapters, and hundreds of various writers in different circumstances and backgrounds, and vastly varying states of mind, all writing about different events and for different audiences in several languages. Look at this effort, and if we can identify a theme, just the tiniest theme, then we may begin to see that this work is actually being curated by more than an individual ( or a group of individuals).
Some say the Bible isn't complete. My answer is that the word of God, being alive, can never be incomplete. Certainly a description of a person will always be incomplete until we meet that person. So accusations of an incomplete compilation (or deliberate omissions from the compilation) miss the point entirely. If a group of books is describing a dead person, an omission of a detail will, at best, serve to withhold some piece of vital information. An alteration will do likewise by misleading unsuspecting readers. But if the subject of the description were alive, then such false descriptions would easily be revealed for what they are, once we meet the subject of description.
Continued in part 2
