And Da Word was with Gawd, and the Word was Gawd, and then Gawd saw that it was good...
Gad, I'd love to see someone mince the passages together one day. John 1 and Genesis 1.
Hmm. You know. I love it when people bring up Revelation, because I love to look at it this way: there was no way in heaven or hell that John, Mr. I Just Got Stuck in Oil Before Being Dumped on this White Rock, was going to know that his entry would be the last one INSERTED in the Bible. How was he supposed to know that 2 Peter wouldn't come AFTER Revelation, and Revelation maybe after 1 Timothy with 2 Timothy tossed in somewhere after Jude, which may have gone right after Luke?
It was all on the editors, and if you ask me, I think the editors tossed that last little part in, to give it a sense of finality, even if finality it was not.
Or maybe the editors didn't do it, and John was saying, "Don't screw with my prophecy, or God will waste you either way you go". John was not speaking entirely of the whole Bible. If he was, and we get some 67th episode into it, we're screwed up the creek if you're an advocate of "John said don't add or take away or you'll be damned either way you go", and those like you get to be the ones in ecumenical charge.
Geez. No. The Revelation passage is strictly about Revelation. Very unique in that it's the only one like that, and that just kinda sets up the paranoid theory that says the Bible's editors did it that way, on purpose, and for good measure, tossed an Amen at the end, to give it a sense of closure. Editorial footnote, amen.
Is what I think.
The Word is God. The Word is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the Son. He who denies the Son denies the Father, et cetera, et cetera, and Green Day rocks.
The Word doesn't really matter if it was scratched on stone and ol King James I decided to scratch it off onto the printing press. It just IS. And the Word of God became Jesus, something like that's just not merely a bunch of script that's our Bible, our guide, but that's what came from the Word. The Word is living, and the words we have from the Word are something that reflect that liveliness, if only so shallowly, because they're just that: printed words. What if all our Bibles got burned and all we were left with was oral tradition, like poor ol Jews from way back when?
Gad. The Word is alive, and the Word spoke, and got Its story down on paper, a crude representation of what the Word IS: alive.
