Sufficiency of the Word of God Is the Insufficiency of Scripture (Edited by ChatGPT)

  

The Word of God is the truth of God. The Word of God is the truthful principles that define who God is. This Word of God is presented in a fuzzy form in Scripture. The medium used to deliver the Word of God in Scripture was people, and since they are from the earth, what they speak is an earthly Word of God and therefore not adequate as a result. Besides this, the fullness of the message is constrained by who they are, as they were neither able to reveal the fullness of God nor able to live by the truth of God. Most of them could not even understand it, as God said in Scripture that His messengers never fully understood Him. John the Baptist is a good example of this, as both his word and his failure witness to this conclusion.

 

That is why the Truth came with Jesus, and the truthful nature of God was revealed with the Word of God who lived among us — the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible was speaking about God, and therefore about Jesus, but the fullness of the Word of God — the nature of God and the wisdom of God — was revealed in Jesus, God who became man. Both the written Word and the living Word of God have one purpose: to teach us who God is.

 

Still, the revealed Jesus of the past was not adequate. We saw God becoming man and declaring who God is. As we saw Jesus, we saw God. The Word of God in the Bible was a fuzzy picture of God, a fuzzy picture of Jesus, but its fullness was lived in Jesus — the living Word of God and the witness of God. The problem is that Jesus came as a common man, and the glory of God was not fully expressed in the Jesus who lived as the man of God. That is why we still cannot comprehend the might of God in this age, because what the world saw was a weak and human God who was killed by people, though the faithful know that He is now in heaven and at the right side of the Heavenly Father. That is why Paul was sure that he still did not fully understand God, and that what he saw was still a fuzzy picture of God — and this was after Jesus lived on this earth.

But when Jesus comes with the full glory, might, and power of God, accompanied by His army of angels and saints, the fullness of the Word of God will be seen in the coming Jesus. The perfect Word of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, will be revealed in His full power and might, and at that time the Bible, prophecy, and signs will become history. At that time God will directly speak to all and lead all, as He is the only light that shines brightly in heaven. At that time all fuzzy and partial truths of prophecy, tongues, and the Word of God in the Bible will be done away with, because the perfect Jesus Christ, in His full might, will be present.

 

The fullness of the Word of God, which is revealed in Jesus, is sufficient to tell us all things about God — but that means Scripture is not sufficient, because Scripture is not Jesus. Scripture is necessary, and without Scripture and proper knowledge of Scripture we cannot know God apart from the devil. To know Jesus apart from the antichrist, to know God apart from the devil, and to know the Holy Spirit apart from dark spirits, we need to know God from the Bible.

 

That is why the Bible is fundamental, and biblical accuracy is a necessary precondition for the knowledge of God. Without biblical knowledge and a proper foundation based on biblical truth, the chance that we can identify God apart from the devil is almost zero. This is not a theory I merely think — it is life I have experienced. That is why we need proper biblical foundation, and if we love God, it is odd not to seek Him in His Word. We cannot access Jesus easily, but the Bible is always around us, and it is odd that we do not seek to know God by reading and carefully studying the Bible. Yet even though the Bible is fundamental and necessary for the knowledge of God, it is not sufficient, because the Bible is not Jesus. The fullness of God is in Jesus, not in the Bible.

 

Can we live a perfect life of faith by the Bible alone? Devils are around us, the flesh is leading us astray, and the world around us is changing at an alarming rate, and we must make the right decisions all the time. When we talk to people, agree on issues, choose leaders or followers, and in general make daily decisions, we must choose rightly. We are sheep in the middle of foxes, and if they find any opening they will destroy us to nothing. The devil will not come identifying himself as the devil, but as an angel of light. False teaching will not come first with bad wine, but with good wine, and when we are drunk, it will give us the bad one. The road to hell often starts with good intentions and grows toward hell through hypocrisy. That is why the Bible is not enough — we need Jesus to lead us and guide us by all means necessary, as God sees fit.

 

This is because we are bounded people. Our knowledge and information are always fuzzy and underdeveloped. Worse still, our brainpower is limited compared to the complexity of the world around us. How can we make the right choices by ourselves? That is why the faithful should not judge by what they hear or see, but by the heart of God, because we have the heart of Jesus. We are incompetent beings, but the God who leads us is perfect, and we must be guided by the One who sees — God Himself. This makes us like the wind: nobody understands where we come from or where we go. We can analyze all things, but nobody can fully understand us, because we have the heart of the Lord Jesus — and who can understand the God who leads us?

 

With the Bible and our brain alone, it is the blind leading the blind. That is why God must be in charge of our lives. God must make decisions through us, and the Holy Spirit must lead us from within. But what if we have moments of weakness, and the flesh resists our spiritual choice to die on the cross? An angel may visit us, or God may speak to us directly to strengthen our spirit. Jesus, in His time of weakness of the flesh, prayed to God, and God sent Him an angel. When Jesus asked for glory, a voice came from heaven. If Jesus needed this for His spiritual strength and for the witness of others, who are we to say we can do perfectly with the Bible alone? Do we claim to be better than Jesus? If Jesus needed God and His voice, how much more do we — flesh and bone of this earth — need communication from heaven?

God does lead us from the inside out, but do we always obey? If we obeyed God fully, the fruit would testify to it. Our fruit often reflects our disobedience. As our distance from God increases, and as our lives are mostly led by flesh and tradition, the chance that we understand the direction of God speaking in our hearts becomes very low. Yet we may make wrong decisions and wrong turns in life that can destroy us, so God may use prophets to give us messages, may use dreams to warn us, or may simply say “don’t do that” in a voice. There are countless reasons why God guides us in ways beyond the heart alone. I am actually surprised that people claim they never receive dreams from God — dreams are very common in life, and even the faithless receive dreams, because God cares for all.

 

Now imagine God sending His Word to guide us — what should the devil do? The devil must also send endless messages in every direction to hide the gold of God within a large pile of the devil’s dirt. There is the true faith of God, the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ, expressed in many living denominations of born-again faithful — but how many counterfeits exist? Because there are countless counterfeits, should we reject the true faith? By the same logic, because there is much dirt from the devil, should we reject the Word of God that comes in extra-biblical ways? God can use any means He desires, as long as the new message is consistent with the old message — the Bible.

 

Those new messages must be consistent with the Bible; however, that does not mean they must only repeat what is written in the Bible. Sometimes the message explains the Bible better and opens our eyes to biblical issues while solving current problems at the same time. Sometimes the message warns that the person you are doing business with is a thief. Sometimes it calls you to have faith because hard times are ahead. Sometimes gospel music comes to your mind and leads you to listen, giving you the right spirit. Sometimes you wake up in the middle of the night and begin praying, and the next day you see trouble coming — and the message was to pray. God is saying, “I will listen to you, so pray.” Whatever God sees fit, the message comes, and often it is designed to make us dependent on God rather than on our own understanding.

 

That is why messages not bound to the Bible must still be consistent with the Bible, because the Word of God is consistent. We must evaluate such messages by the Bible and by their fruit. As far as we understand Scripture, we must ensure consistency with it. If a new scientific idea completely rejects all known facts, nobody takes it seriously. But if it builds on existing knowledge and proposes new insight that can be tested, it is taken seriously. In the same way, consistency with the Bible does not mean repeating the Bible word for word, but reflecting the same God revealed in the Bible.

 

Yet there are two problems: our knowledge of the Bible is limited, and many things in Scripture are still unclear to us; and the message itself is new. Therefore, we must watch the fruit. If the message produces the right fruit — faithful formed in the image of Jesus — it is from God. Otherwise, we must question its origin.

 

This is why the Bible is necessary but not sufficient. Only Jesus, revealed in full glory, is both necessary and sufficient — as Jesus is the fullness of the Word of God, the Truth of God, the Logos of God, the Wisdom of God, and God Himself. The Word of God that Jesus is, is sufficient, but the Bible is not the fullness of the Word of God — as it is not Jesus. When the perfect Jesus returns, the Bible will no longer be needed. Jesus Himself will be our light, and He will teach us who God is with perfect clarity.