| Show WORp WORD OF o GOD tim 11 Episcopalian Bishop hop William ot of quoted a as hay hov hovIng i lug Ing stated In an before an DUct I Ienco once enco or of young oung people that the Bible nowhere claims to be the word ot of Clod The Oregonian endorses thin and aud the for tor the courage he displayed In mak enak makIng lag Ing It publicly The Oregonian sur aur surmise mise that mod modern zealots misunderstanding standIng the term lenn logos or word us as used b by John In hi his Gospel el cc It to the books ot of the Bible DIble Amid thus the phrase Word ot of God came Into common u use o In an entirely unscriptural sense ThIs explanation cannot be accepted Thu ho title ot of God to tile the Scriptures Is much older than thun nn any mod rn zealots Our Lord Him Himself self Is thought to 10 have referred to the tho extant at that time shen hn he exclaimed 11 are aro they that hear tho Iho word ot of God and aud k keep p It Luke 28 21 The earl church t Ca tiers evidently so 80 understood this text tex the ems for tor carefully attending to the word ot of God Liok k ho he soya Into the holy Scriptures which nr the th true wor words s of the Holy Ghost lie also allo refers refer to ci the tho as I the Oracles ot of Clod teaches that tho dictated by tito Word ot of and Ills Spirit This indicates tho thet origin ot of the term discussed It if the wert c dictated tl by the Word or of nM and his they are appropriately called the tho ot of Clod What Whitt are the tho claIms ot of the sacred wrIters thell themselves 1 According to I 1 Pet Pel I 11 the SpirIt ot of Christ tas 38 In inthe the tho prophets guidIng them In theIr ut I teranCe Peter PJ a This scrip scripture ture must neEds have bun been which the Hol holy Ghost by tim tho mouth ut at aflak tg S I 16 1 This I is the of at Ial Well the tue 1101 Ghost b by Esala the thel prophet g S Compare om pare lIeb III 7 1 x a 15 11 Z 2 id 1 I 1 and 2 Tim III 18 13 Such are tro tho jho claims of at the ew Tuta Testa meat ment authors t for r the prophets ot of th the theOld Old and for tor nfl aU divinely In Titers The Christians but followed that lead when they claimed that the Scriptures are the Word ot of God AccordIng to Justin tee writers part was to lo yield ld himself In purity to the operations of time the Spirit that the divine power descend descending Ing front heaven might deal with Just men as the deals with harp harpor or lyre does riot not he hes hesitate to call th the Scriptures Scripture the writings ot of God lod Modern zeal zealots may hn hare used the term In an unscriptural sense ns as 1111 assigning signing to 10 the Scriptures attributes not Implied thereby but the tho t term rm itself Is The Scriptures claim to bo be the tho word ot of 00 Clod 1 In the settee that they Are by tim Holy Spirit a God d has from time limo to time communicated ted with man other otherwise wise 10 than through the normal natural phenomena ICe bas spoken some lome sometimes times by physical miracle and some MOme lImes by dl dIsclosures clo ot of the future or revelations ot of the world behind the thc veil elt And Amid tim Scriptures are the records ot of such uch communications They contAin the le Word ot of Go The Saints not trou I ide themselves with doubts doubt at a t to this I I do doctrine The D Book olt ot of Mormon In IS a groat number ot of passages refers reters to tito utterances inspIred by th the Spirit whether spoken r or written n as the tho Word of God The Tho are Bre u es especially designated au a s the book ot of the lAmb or of God In the Doctrine and Covenants the Iho taint Int are enjoined to carch th those 1 be because cause though the and the earth pass away my nord shall hull not pas away Sec etc I it as 31 My word covers coers both an lent and modern rove reve revelations lations The are arc the Word ot of Clod Title rh Is ia the most perfect and complete title or of the these records record It e im faith anti It 6 to see lIte In Iii theBe marvelous literarY productIons the marks mark of time the hu Instruments whom they vere brought forth an utterance ot of divine antS and Ion hove |
