Question 3. What is the Word of God?

 

Question 3. What is the Word of God?

Answer. The Old and New Testaments are the Word of God and the only rule of faith and practice.


According to the law of faith, the word of God can be found in the two main branches of the law and the gospel. The law can be said to be a commandment of action, “Do or do not do,” but the word of the law is a word that makes people realize that they are beings who cannot completely keep God’s commandments and to find Christ, and the gospel is that Christ has come, and if you enter into Christ, you will be saved. Therefore, the word of God can be said to be the law of faith that leads to salvation.

However, if we look at it based on the only law of works, the law can be transformed into legalism. Because legalism emphasizes works, the gospel can be separate from works. If you enter into the faith of Jesus Christ, you will be saved, but it attaches a condition that works must follow. Attaching this condition is legalism.

James 2:14-17 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but has not works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; be warmed and filled,” yet you do not give them the things needed for the body, what good is it? Even so faith, if it does not have works, is dead, being alone.

At that time, among the Jews who accepted the gospel, there were many who believed in the gospel but thought that they had to be circumcised to be saved. Because of this problem, the first council was held in the church in Jerusalem, and it was declared that circumcision was a covenant with Jesus Christ, and now that Jesus came to the world, died on the cross, and was resurrected, the covenant of circumcision was fulfilled, so circumcision was no longer necessary. Nevertheless, many Jews continued to insist on circumcision, so James spoke about works. The works that James spoke of meant the act of giving up circumcision and the act of imparting the spiritual food, the life of resurrection.

Therefore, if we say that the Word of God is the only law of conduct, then that conduct means keeping and practicing what is prescribed in the law, which is different from the meaning of the Word of God in the Old and New Testaments. The Word of God does not mean keeping and practicing the law perfectly, but rather giving up legalism and moving forward to the life of resurrection.

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