Is the Bible the Written Word of God?

(Question) #1 September 10, 1988

Is the Bible the Written Word of God?

Please read Deuteronomy 4:9-13 and 10:1-5

Please read Exodus 31:12-13 And the Lord spake unto Moses saying, Speak thou also unto the Children of Israel, saying, speak thou also unto the Children of Israel, saying, Verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.

Now Exodus 31:16-17 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever.

Now last clause of verse 17; for in six days the Lord made Heaven and Earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

Genesis 2:2-3 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Comment: The Mighty God sanctified the first seventh day and made it holy. This was done in creation. It is not the Jews Sabbath but it is God’s Sabbath. Isaiah 58:13-14 the Seventh day is the Lord’s day sanctified by Him in creation. Read Matthew 5:18-19, Mark 2:27-28 The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath: Therefore the Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath.

Now turn to Isaiah 58:13-14 If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, not finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.