tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post7819769326134068463..comments2023-07-06T15:14:57.204+01:00Comments on JOHN'S BLOG: Hebrews 1, Evangelicals and BibliolatryJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02487495921222083129noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post-58253100438249204702007-02-23T23:36:00.000+00:002007-02-23T23:36:00.000+00:00Oh, and I deal with the question of the meaning of...Oh, and I deal with the question of the meaning of the phrase "word of God" <A HREF="http://custardy.blogspot.com/2007/02/word-of-god.html" REL="nofollow">here</A>.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02487495921222083129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post-81787328538512066602007-02-23T23:35:00.000+00:002007-02-23T23:35:00.000+00:00Absolutely right, and a point I was arguing over l...Absolutely right, and a point I was arguing over lunch today. But the Scriptures are not an end in themselves, and they are not God.<BR/><BR/>Knowledge of the Scriptures is not the same as personal knowledge of Jesus, though the verbal content of the latter is attained through the former.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02487495921222083129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post-82737525996916664402007-02-23T19:04:00.000+00:002007-02-23T19:04:00.000+00:00Beware of false dichotomies. What objective knowl...Beware of false dichotomies. What objective knowledge of Jesus Christ can anyone have now except through the Scriptures? Cornelius van Til got it right when he referred to Jesus as the "self-attesting Christ of Scripture". Anything beyond this is always in danger of becoming "another Jesus".DFHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02645574107206812360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post-68306928640621667652007-02-08T11:48:00.000+00:002007-02-08T11:48:00.000+00:00Ooh, now I'm intrigued, because I assumed that the...Ooh, now I'm intrigued, because I assumed that the "word of God" passages used <I>logos</I>. Bad assumption - Ephesians 6 uses <I>rhema</I>. Luke 4, the parable of the sower, does use <I>logos</I>, and I've heard it said (even in a sermon last Sunday!) that Jesus was referring to <B>himself</B> as the seed.<BR/><BR/>But anyhow, if the opposite mistake is to say "it's all about the person of JesusSimonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00697590799264033939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post-78816524622517150512007-02-07T15:43:00.000+00:002007-02-07T15:43:00.000+00:00I think you've just made the opposite mistake, Sim...I think you've just made the opposite mistake, Simon. I'll post on it soon.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02487495921222083129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post-32887999195356540562007-02-07T15:37:00.000+00:002007-02-07T15:37:00.000+00:00In the OT, "Word of God" = Scriptures / bits of th...In the OT, "Word of God" = Scriptures / bits of the Scripture / verbal propositional revelation from GodJohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02487495921222083129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post-15155504942963142842007-02-07T15:36:00.000+00:002007-02-07T15:36:00.000+00:00From that post you linked to, I think I ought to s...From that post you linked to, I think I ought to say that I had the opportunity to ask Vaughan Roberts, Rector of St Ebbe's, about what he thought about revelation.<br /><br />He impressed me by saying that God's supreme revelation is in Jesus and the Bible just points to him.<br /><br />Of course, in the OT, "word of God" usually refers to the Scriptures. Arguably it does in Ephesians 6 as well.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02487495921222083129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post-89310399685952020532007-02-07T12:47:00.000+00:002007-02-07T12:47:00.000+00:00One of the drivers behind this problem, as far as ...One of the drivers behind this problem, as far as I see it, is interpretation of the "word of God" passages. The Bible is not the word of God - Jesus is the word of God, as any good reader of John 1 knows. When you read <i>logos theou</i> passages as referring to Jesus, rather than referring to a book which won't be compiled for another two hundred years, it suddenly makes a lot more sense.<br />Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00697590799264033939noreply@blogger.com