Holy Scripture: How Are Words Are Invaluable?

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Experience: Words are powerful. Words are meaningful. Words can build cites and destroy empires. Words give life and can take life away. Words together can define and create the invisible visible. Through our imagination, a summary of words can transport us to distant galaxies far beyond our most advance telescopes or do the impossible of teleporting us through the past, and or future. Such a poetic designed, words are invaluable. Maybe this is why God, the creator of the heaven and the earth, the architect of humanity, the author of our salvation, choose to use words has his main vessel to pass down to generation to generation as His primary sources of instruction for of our lives. The bible is comprised of 66 books, 1,189 chapters, over …show more content…
C. Berkouwer who also wrote a book called, “Holy Scripture”. Berkouwer was a professor of Systematic Theology at the Free University of Amsterdam before passing away in January of 1996. The thought processes behind Berkouwer on Scripture in the form of reason is similar to Bloesch understating that it, “must be expounded as an apologetic” 11. Berkouwer describes the meaning of scripture and reason behind its undeniable truth can only become clear when one proclaims the gospels of Jesus Christ, the good news. Berkouwer writes, “For only by proclaiming this message does the meaning of Scripture become clear, as it is intended to lead us a to be a light unto us.” That reason and meaning behind each word, phrase, versus and chapter is in context of the the message given to the Glory of His son and with in the deed of our faith. Berkouwer concludes, that in essence, the true authentic from of reason behind scripture will may never be revealed out of light of guidance’s for God children. This allows for a pastoral care method approach to the mystery of scripture, rather then a protection of the word which can lead to aggression, deviances and

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