The Bible is the only book that faithfully tells us what we are, even to the discerning of the thoughts and intents of the heart. This shows it to be divine, for only God searches the heart.
It truly reveals God, so that when the Word is received, it brings our souls into the consciousness of God's having to do with us. This shows its divinity, for the world by wisdom knows not God. In a variety of aspects the Son who came forth from the Father to save sinners is presented to us. As the leading truths of Scripture, His personal glory, moral perfectness, finished work, walk, words, ways, life, death, resurrection, ascension, glorification, present offices, future judgments and reign give the Word also a divine character.
Its unity carries with it the stamp of divinity as nothing else could. The way in which the different parts are adapted to each other, types in the Old Testament having their antitypes in the New, a multitude of prophetic statements in the former having their accomplishment in the latter, these combine to give it a divine character which is incontestable. There are many quotations in the New Testament quoted from the Old to prove the soundness of the doctrines taught.
It is not surprising, then, that an inspired writer should commend the Word to us as if in its operations it possessed divine attributes. "The word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." Heb. 4:1212For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12).
A professing Christian lately said, "There are many opinions about the Scriptures." I replied, "How can that be if they are the utterances of God to us? Surely then, we have only to listen to His voice and seek to do His will."
Young Christian