What is the meaning of word of god

What Does the Phrase, “the Word of God” Mean?

Why the Bible Is So Special – Question 10

The phrase, “the Word of God” or “the Word of the Lord” has a number of different meanings in Scripture. It can mean either something that God has decreed, something that God has said when addressing humans, words that God spoke through the prophets, Jesus Christ, or finally, God’s written Word.

This can be illustrated as follows:

1. It Can Be Something That God Has Decreed

God’s decrees are His divine pronouncements. His words cause things to happen. Specifically, the Bible gives a number of examples of this. In Genesis, we read that God commands light to appear:

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. (Genesis 1:1-3 NASB)

Light comes about because of the spoken word of God. He spoke, light appeared.

When God decrees something that will, of necessity, come about, it is known as “the Word of God” or “the Word of the Lord.” The psalmist wrote:

By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and by the breath of His mouth all their host. (Psalm 33:6 NASB)

The New English Translation puts it this way:

By the LORD’s decree the heavens were made; by a mere word from his mouth all the stars in the sky were created. (Psalm 33:6 NET)

The heavens were created by the divine decrees of God.

These types of decrees were something that God desired to occur ? they were not necessarily spoken to anyone. Yet, they are called “the Word of God” or “the Word of the Lord.” Indeed, the universe is upheld by the Word of God. The writer to the Hebrews said:

The Son reflects God’s own glory, and everything about him represents God exactly. He sustains the universe by the mighty power of his command. After he died to cleanse us from the stain of sin, he sat down in the place of honor at the right hand of the majestic God of heaven. (Hebrews 1:3 NLT)

Therefore, God’s divine speech causes certain events to happen, and on some occasions, causes things to come into being. His divine decrees caused the universe to come about and it allows the universe to continue to exist.

2. It May Refer to God Verbally Addressing Humans: Personal Address

When God verbally addressed certain humans in the past, His words were known as the Word of God. Scripture gives a number of illustrations of God addressing humans in human language. For example, God personally spoke to Adam in the Garden of Eden:

And the LORD God commanded the man, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.” (Genesis 2:16-17 NRSV)

Thus, the phrase, “the Word of God” or the “Word of the Lord” can refer to the actual words God used in speaking to humans in their own language. This type of personal address from God is found throughout Scripture. When the Ten Commandments were given, God personally spoke them to Moses. The Bible says:

And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me.” (Exodus 20:1-3 RSV)

Therefore, the Word of God may refer to the actual words that God spoke to humans. In these instances, the people were hearing the very voice of the living God. His words were completely understandable; spoken in ordinary human language. The people were expected to obey these words that God had spoken.

3. It Can Refer to God Speaking Through Human Prophets

The phrase, “Word of God” is also used of something that is said by God’s chosen spokesmen. The Bible says that God spoke to His people through the words of the prophets. These words consisted of ordinary language spoken through human beings.

When the biblical prophets spoke for the Lord, their words were called the “Word of God.” The Lord promised that the prophets would speak His words. He said to Moses:

I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I want. I myself will hold responsible anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet will speak in my name. But any prophet who presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods?that prophet must die. (Deuteronomy 18:18-20 NET)

While the words of the prophets were the speech of human beings, they carried God’s divine authority. The words spoken by God’s prophets were supposed to be obeyed. However, those who falsely claimed to speak God’s word were to be punished.

In another instance, the Lord promised to tell the prophet Jeremiah what to say to the people. The Bible says:

The LORD said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am too young.’ But go to whomever I send you and say whatever I tell you.” (Jeremiah 1:7 NET)

The Lord assured Jeremiah that his words to the people would be God’s words. We also read in Jeremiah:

Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “I will most assuredly give you the words you are to speak for me.” (Jeremiah 1:9 NET)

Scripture makes no distinction in the authority of the words that God directly spoke and those things that were spoken by His prophets. Everything that was said was considered to be the Word of God because God was their ultimate source. God used ordinary human beings and spoke through them in their own language to communicate the Word of God. Consequently, the words were to be obeyed.

We must note that while God did personally speak to humans, or used humans as His personal spokesmen, these occurrences were rare ? they were not the norm. This was not the way in which He regularly communicated with humanity.

4. Jesus Christ Is the Word of God

God the Son, Jesus Christ, is known as the Word of God. At the beginning of John’s gospel we read the following:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1 KJV)

In the Book of Revelation, John describes the risen Christ as the “Word of God.” He wrote:

He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. (Revelation 19:13 ESV)

The New Living Translation says:

He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and his title was the Word of God. (Revelation 19:13 NLT)

This description, the Word of God, is only used for God the Son; it is not used for God the Father or God the Holy Spirit. God the Son, Jesus Christ, is the one member of the Trinity who personally communicated God to humanity. However, since there are only two references in the New Testament that refer to Jesus Christ as the Word of God, this usage is rare.

5. It Also Refers to God’s Written Word

Finally, the “Word of God” can refer to God’s Word in written formPsalm 19:9-10the Bible. After being proclaimed orally, God’s Word was put into written form. Moses was told to write down God’s words:

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.” (Exodus 17:14 NIV)

Elsewhere, we again read about God telling Moses to write something down:

And the LORD said to Moses, “Write these words; in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” (Exodus 34:27 RSV)

In the New Testament, Jesus contrasted the written Word of God with the ungodly tradition of the people. He said:

But you say, ‘If someone tells his father or mother, “Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,” he certainly does not honor his father.’ You have nullified the word of God on account of your tradition. (Matthew 15:5-6 NET)

According to Jesus, these human-made traditions nullified the Word of God. The written Word of God, the Hebrew Scripture, was the only source of authority for the people until Jesus came. While these were human words, they still carried God’s divine authority.

The New Testament appears to use the terms “Word of God,” “Word of the Lord” and “Word of Christ” interchangeably. All of them refer to God’s authoritative Word.

Therefore, we find that the Scripture uses the phrase “the Word of God” in five distinct ways: God’s divine decrees, God personally speaking to people in their language, the words of God’s divinely inspired prophets, Jesus Christ and the written Word of God. The context must determine how the phrase is to be understood.

Summary – Question 10
What Does the Phrase, “the Word of God” Mean?

The phrase, “the Word of God” is used in a number of different ways. It refers to something that God has decreed to come to pass. It is also used of the actual spoken words of God. Words that God has spoken through the prophets can also be called “the Word of God.” Jesus Christ Himself is called the Word of God. Finally, the phrase can also refer to God’s written Word.

The words that were delivered by God’s designated spokesmen, the prophets, as well as the written Word of God, though not as dramatic, carried the same authority as the actual words spoken by God.

While all five ways that God has spoken to humanity can be called the “Word of God,” the only form available to us to study is the written Scripture. Indeed, we would not know about the other four areas of God’s Word except for the written Word in Scripture.

Word of God, the expression, rolls off the tongue for Christians—but what does it even mean?

Catholics and other Christians use the expression “word of God” all the time and apply it to the Scriptures, the sayings of God and Jesus in those Scriptures, and especially to Jesus. 

But what does “God’s word” mean? If we are honest, we’d admit the expression “God’s Word” is ambiguous. Humans use words, but what about God? Could it be that when we call either Jesus or the Bible the “Word of God,” we mean something very human? 

We are talking about revelation, of course. But what is revelation anyway? It’s a lot like asking about the meaning of the “God’s utterance.” Catholics and other Christians say “amen” and head nod to these things but seldom critically reflect on them. 

Here is a video presentation about “Word of God”—

Word of God = God’s Human Word

When we call the Bible the “God’s Wprd,” we mean to say that it is God’s human word. In other words, the Bible is God’s inspired self-communication or “word” in many messy human words and stories. “God’s word” is a human reality—being divine makes it more human, not less. 

Therefore, the “God’s word” does not mean something chemically isolated from humanity. There is no such thing as a “pure” word of God. God did not physically write the Bible or dictate its contents. Therefore the inspired authors are not comparable to secretaries or stenographers. The Church does not accept a plenary view or dictation theory of inspiration. To hold such a view is absurd. Indeed, inspiration is messy! 

The expression “word of God” implies a communicator, communication, and a recipient to the communication. What good is a word without a listener? But is it easy to hear God’s communication? What amount of effort goes into discerning revelation?

Receiving the divine word is messy. Who can be metaphysically certain that they interpreted their experience with God correctly? God communicates to us exclusively in ways conditioned by our history and culture. How we understand, interpret, and express divine revelation is always limited. That’s true of the inspired authors of Scripture also.   

Divine Word as Revelation

Look here—

Revelation > Tradition > Scripture. 

According to official Catholic teaching, revelation is greater than Tradition, which is greater than Sacred Scripture. The divine word is not only to be found in the Bible or in our Tradition. Every created thing is filled with the word of God. 

Revelation means God’s self-disclosure. Therefore, the Holy and Absolute Mystery called “God” is both the “Revealer” and the content of what is revealed. Thus, revelation is not limited to Catholic Tradition or Sacred Scripture because God is—or at least can be—disclosed in all things. This is the basic Catholic understanding of sacramentality.  

Transmission of the Word of God

Tradition means “the transmission of divine revelation.” Since revelation is always received according to the mode of the receiver, and the recipients are human, revelation and its transmission must be a messy business! 

Scripture is the normative and inspired part of Tradition. But by “inspired,” we do not mean that God dictated it a set of books (God did not dictate the contents of the Bible—and the Scriptures are not cognitively inerrant). When we call the Scriptures the word of God, we mean that we are dealing with something that has two aspects. One aspect is divine, and the other, human. 

God’s word is a messy business. Therefore, to call the Bible “God’s word” means “God’s human word”—and that is definitely messy. By “Word of God,” we mean God’s self-expression in many messy human words, given throughout a library (ta Biblia), which is normative literature for Christians. The Bible presents a first word for the Church, but it is not the only word about God and humankind, and it definitely is not the final word about God and humanity.

There is much more to say. We’ll come back to this topic soon. 

I have started writing a column for Preach magazine, in which I explore a significant word or phrase in the Bible and the ideas that it expresses. The first one was on the phrase ‘Word of God’. Despite the fact that many churches use this phrase with reference to the reading of Scripture, its meaning is often disputed, sometimes on the basis that it is Jesus, rather than the Bible, which is the word of God. The two ideas are actually closely related, and need to be understood in the context of Old Testament understandings of the phrase, as I explore:

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‘This is the Word of the Lord’. ‘Thanks be to God.’ This is quite a common refrain at the end of the Bible readings in many churches; you might have said one or both parts of this in the last week. But it is not always clear what we mean by the phrase ‘Word of God’, and the use of the phrase is sometimes disputed.

We encounter the idea of the word of God immediately on opening the Bible. The creation account in Genesis 1 depicts God not so much as a craftsman shaping the world with his hands, but as a speaker bringing the world into being simply by his speech. What he speaks into existence comes into existence; God’s words do things. In the second creation account, in Gen 2.4 onwards, God’s words shape the world he has made; his command to the adam to eat of any tree in the garden, but not the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, creates a boundary for the adam’s world. The first challenge to the power of God’s words comes from the snake when it asks ‘Did God really say…?’

The nature and importance of words in the Old Testament is indicated by the Hebrew term davar. Though it refers to the speech of God or people, it is connected to the root dr, which means ‘order’. So when we read ‘God spoke these words to Moses…’ in the Pentateuch, we might better understand it as ‘God gave Moses these commands’. Indeed, the text which we call ‘The Ten Commandments’ is in Hebrew called ‘The Ten Words’, devarim; these and God’s other words to Moses function to ‘order’ and shape the life of his people Israel. Thus, on occasions, the word davar can refer not just to the words, but to the things themselves which have been put in order by God’s words. Most English translations render Num 18.7 as ‘Only you and you sons may serve in connection with everything at the altar’, where the Hebrew is ‘every davar of the altar…’

The sense of God’s word as a thing continues in the prophetic tradition, where time and again the prophet claims that ‘the word of Yahweh came to me…’ At times, these ‘words’ have visionary elements, but they constantly serve to call God’s people back to the ordered life that he has set before them.

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With God’s ordering speech to his people inscribed in the various books of the Old Testament, Jesus consistently takes these written words to be the words of God. Most often these are referred to simply by the introduction ‘it is written’, as we find in the exchange of Scriptures with the Devil in Jesus’ temptation. But Jesus also uses the actual phrase ‘word of God’ on several occasions (Mark 7.13, John 10.34) referring to the text, and even cites the narrator’s words of Gen 2.24 as God’s own speech (‘the Creator…said…’ Matt 19.5). This makes it all the more striking when Jesus goes on to use the phrase ‘word of God’ to mean the good news of the gospel which he himself is preaching (Luke 5.1, 8.11), and Luke continues to use this phrase to refer to the subsequent apostolic preaching of the good news (Acts 4.31, 6.7).

Since this ‘word’ focuses on the person of Jesus, we can easily understand the next development of this terminology: in John 1, it is Jesus himself who is this divine Word, the pre-existent logos. Jesus, God’s word made flesh, is himself the expression of the ordering, communication and wisdom of God. But this claim goes even further; for John’s Greek-speaking readers, the logos is not just the words spoken by God, previously found in the Old Testament, but in Stoic philosophy the rational principle that holds the whole fabric of the universe together (compare Heb 1.3).

Thus the phrase ‘word of God’ refers to God own speech as he brings order out of chaos and makes his will known. It refers to the prophetic correction to his people to keep them within his gracious ordering, and then to the written record of the law, prophets and wisdom. It then refers to the teaching of Jesus as he announces the coming of God’s kingdom in fulfilment of Old Testament promise, and further to the apostolic teaching about Jesus, now inscribed in our New Testaments. Rather neatly, the Book of Revelation completes the canon by referencing these different meanings in the seven occurrences of ‘word of God’ in its chapters. Revelation is saturated in the Old Testament as the word of God, but this word is now both the ‘testimony of Jesus’ (Rev 1.2) as well as Jesus himself (Rev 19.13), and includes the prophetic message given to John (Rev 19.9) which aims to keep his readers faithful to the Jesus whom he sets before them.

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In previous posts, we learned how Manifest Creation emerges from the Unmanifest Absolute, which represent the formed and formless versions of the same thing or Oneness. How does this relate to the Bible terms Word of God or Light? What is the modern meaning of Word of God and Light?

What is the meaning of Word of God?

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” – John 1:1

Guy Needler said: “The Word is Om, and it is the resonant frequency of not just the multiverse, but the base resonant frequency of the Origin.” So the “Word of God” refers to the Origin, not the Source Entity in this instance. He explained:

• In the beginning, all that would have been there was the Origin’s own sentience and the base resonant frequency of it and the energies (sentient or not) that would be OM (or Original Material/Original Manifestation).

• The vast majority of the Origin is unmapped and not sentient, active or useful to the Origin. That’s why the Origin hived off its sentience into smaller units that became the 12 Source Entities, which in essence are made of the same material as the Origin.

That’s what our Source/SE1/Creator/”God” used to create our multiverse, which it then populated with smaller sentient units of itself, i.e. all the True Energetic Selves, whose function is to experience and fully understand the minute detail of our multiverse.

“All of life is animated by a single fantastic [sentient] energy, which is the essence of everything that is — including you…and what you are made of, it can obviously never leave you. It can bring you peace in moments of stress, strength in moments of weakness, courage in moments of fear, wisdom in moments of confusion, forgiveness in moments of anger, and love in all the moments of your life.” – Neale Donald Walsch

Note: Needler said the Om frequency cannot be quantified in human terms. But when we chant “Om,” it could be quantified as being close to 136.1 Hz (the frequency of an Om tuning fork or C# tuned at 432 Hz; see cymatic imagery of Om chanting in the Great Pyramid).

What is the meaning of Light?

“And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.” – Genesis 1:3

Guy Needler explained that this is a metaphoric statement saying let there be something as against nothing. Darkness is ‘nothingness‘ (or formlessness) and light is ‘somethingness‘ (or form). If we have a creation, then “let there be light” means we have a structure or form (see What Is Emptiness Or Pure Awareness? – Big Picture Questions.com).

Is there light in the physical universe?

From our human perspective (frequency bands 1-3), the light is the stars (a small version of ‘somethingness’) and the space in-between is the darkness (‘nothingness’). But Needler said there is more ‘somethingness’ within the physical universe than we can possibly imagine.

• When our perspective will expand to include the rest of the frequencies (FB 4-12) associated with the physical universe, then there is more content and more light, which we simply can’t see with our eyes or detect with our machinery right now.

But when our physical vehicles evolve to the point, where we are incarnating in the top 12th frequency level, then we’ll see the physical universe as it really exists, which is almost totally full of content, i.e. more light than darkness, according to Needler.

Is there light higher up in the multiverse?

The whole multiverse is also a creation, so the word “light” for ‘somethingness’ applies there as well. It’s about the Source using the environment and the unused, unpopulated energies associated with itself, that have no form, and giving it form. Needler added:

• Without the sentience attached to a body of energy, that body of energy is doing nothing. There is nothing happening to it, so it is ‘nothingness.’
• It’s only when sentience assigns itself to OR commandeers a body of energy, that the energy starts to become useful, become thinking, to be sentient, and to have purpose (see What Is the Amorphous? – Big Picture Questions.com).

Are we stuck with our Source Entity forever?

We are mapping our multiverse, which is located in an energetic “zone” within a tiny area of the Origin (“area of poly-omniscient sentience”), which is being mapped out by all the Source Entities, each busy in their own zone. Needler explained:

• By analogy, it’s like us trying to map out every aspect of our house, not just the rooms, stairs, pipes and cupboards, but every microscopic and submicroscopic aspect of the house. All of it has to be understood before we can move on.
• It’s as if we’ve already moved house three times within the same suburb, because this is our third multiversal cycle breathed out by our Source Entity within the energetic zone assigned to us. And we’re getting faster and better (than Google) at mapping things! 😉

When this tiny area (<1%) of the Origin is completely mapped out and fully understood by the 12 Source Entities and the Origin itself, then the Origin will move its sentience into a new “sphere,” which is a much larger structure. Needler expounded:

• The new sphere so infinitesimally large, that the Origin will need a lot more than 12 Source Entities to map it out at a reasonable speed.
• That’s when EVERY sentient entity, that was split off by ANY of the Source Entities, will become a Source Entity in their own right.

At that point, our True Energetic Self and all the other TES’s will go out and commandeer their own bodies of energies to create their own uni/multiverses, that won’t be linked to any of the previous Source Entities. We are creator beings in training to become Source Entities.

What is communion with the Source or the Origin like?

Guy Needler is in a unique position to describe the greater reality to the rest of us. He acknowledged that no words or feelings can adequately describe it, but he said:

“Being in the Source is like being in all places at once and knowing all things at once. Focusing on any one thing is instantaneous – the feeling of love and communion with all things is tremendous. You feel like you can create a universe on your own. The level of expansiveness is immense but natural to experience.” – Guy Needler

Because Needler is a pure OM being given sentience by the Origin, he can also commune with the other Source Entities and the Origin, which he described as follows:

“When tapping into the Origin, …my sentience is human but not human (possibly because an aspect of me is still incarnate), and I feel like I am the Origin. I am singular but one with Origin and Sources, they appear small to me at times. I can move in and around them, I feel like I am unrestrained. It’s like no matter how big I make myself, I am everywhere and anywhere, and this also applies to no matter how small I make myself.

It is like there are NO BOUNDARIES, the Source Entities are not a boundary, even Event Space is not a boundary. Everything is pockets of sentience, of knowingness, of experience, of evolution in motion in one unfathomably large tract of space.” – Guy Needler

Image: “Hand of God” Nebula (published by NASA)

All of us, as Christians believe that we must obey the Word of God. But what exactly is the Biblical Definition for the “Word of God”? Is it the whole Bible? Or is it part of the Bible? Can parts of God’s Word, even be done away? What did Christ refer to as the “Word of God”? As followers of Christ, we must have a clear understanding of this definition, and this is exactly what we hope to research in this short study.

In an earlier post (What does it mean to be like a “Berean”?) we learned that Christ, His disciples and all of the writers of the New Testament agreed that “Scripture” in their eyes was what we call, the “Old Testament”. A basic knowledge of History would allow anyone to know that the New Testament writings were compiled almost 3 Centuries after the time of Christ. If this is so, what did Christ and all His disciples refer to as the “Word of God”. Let’s look at the evidence.

1. Christ said that Man lives not by food alone, but by the “Word of God” quoting Deut 8:3

Mat 4:4  But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Luk 4:4  And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
Deu 8:3  And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

We can conclude that every Word that proceeds from the Mouth of God is known as the “Word of God” by comparing Mat 4:4 with Luk 4:4. We can also understand that the “Word of God” referred by Christ in these verses, is the same as what was referred to by Moses in Deut 8:3, as this is the exact verse quoted by Messiah.

2. Christ confirms that God’s Commandments given through Moses is the “Word of God”

Mar 7:9-13  And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

In the above passage, Yeshua(Jesus’ true name) rebukes the Pharisees telling them that they are breaking God’s Commandments by keeping their own traditions (Please read about the Pharisees for a clearer explanation on what they believed). One of the most important things that many glance across in this reading, is that Christ calls the Commandments of God, given through Moses as the “Word of God”.

3. Christ preached the “Word of God”

Luk 5:1  And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret,

Christ preached the Word of God as clearly stated in the above passage. If the “Word of God” was (by His own definition), the writings of Moses, then this means that what He preached came from what we now call the Old Testament. (Much of the misunderstandings, such as Christ abolished the Law, comes from a weak knowledge of what He preached. Read an example here)

4. Christ called whoever hears the “Word of God” and does it, “Blessed” and also part of “His own Family”

Luk 11:28  But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
Luk 8:21  And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.

5. The “Word of God” stands forever according to Isaiah and Peter

Isa 40:8  The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
1Pe 1:24,25  For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

We see Peter quoting the words written by Isaiah agreeing with him, that “God’s Word” stands forever, which means it cannot fade away or be abolished.

6. Christ says that “Scripture” (which is the Old Testament) cannot be broken, and refers to it as the “Word of God”

Joh 10:34,35  Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
Psa 82:6  I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

In the above verse we see Christ quoting Psalms 82:6, and goes on to say that Scripture cannot be broken (done away/abolished). Furthermore, He calls the people who received this Word (which is in Psalms, which is part of the Old Testament) as the ones to whom the “Word of God” came. Thereby making “The Word of God” equal to “The Scriptures” or “Old Testament” as it is known today.

7.Conclusion
Yeshua saw every word that proceeded from God’s Mouth as “The Word of God”, and clearly equaled it to the writings of Moses in the Old Testament. In the Old Testament we see clear phrases such as “The LORD (Yehovah) spoke”(Exo 25:1) or “The Word of the Lord came”(Gen 15:1) that refers to “God’s Word” or the “Word of God”.

Even though much of today’s believers are taught that some parts of the Bible are no longer valid for them, and that the “Word of God” is the New Testament Writings, looking at the evidence, we can conclude that “The Old Testament” was regarded as the “Word of God” by our Messiah. If anyone teaches or believes that the Old Testament is done away, they are inadvertently saying that God’s Words are abolished.

It is time that we ask ourselves important questions such as, can parts of God’s Word be abolished, done away or removed?… When Peter and Isaiah both say that “The Word of God” endures forever. Through Yeshua’s own Words and testimony it is clear that this cannot be, and that He regarded “The Scriptures” which is “the Old Testament” as the authoritative “Word of God”. As a follower of Christ, what do you believe?