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7.17.2020

Street level explanation of why the Bible is unique among all books

Why is the Bible unique among all books?

First you have the Creator/creation divide.

You have God, and you have everything God created. Some will say God created logic, and because some typical types (with seminary degrees) sort of kind of associate logic with truth they sort of unconsciously think of truth as part of the creation.

No. Truth exists in and emanates from the mind of God. Thus truth is on the Creator side of the Creator/creation divide.

The Bible is the mind of God to humans. It is thus truth from a realm we normally don't have access to but by the grace of God.

Because the Bible is truth itself it is very unique among all books. Other books can contain truth by degree, but none of them are truth itself. The Bible also contains language that is living and quickening, no doubt attributes of truth itself.

To use an analogy of sorts from Greek mythology, Zeus has an Aegis. A sort of shield that disables an enemy. His daughter Athena would borrow it and use it on the battlefield. Imagine if that Aegis fell from Mt. Olympus to earth. It would be quite a unique and rare artifact. It would be otherworldly. Literally from the higher world.

This is sort of what the Bible is. The analogy is not pure because the Greek gods are obviously, even as myth, part of creation, and because God accommodates His oracles to our level and ability to understand, (and this, by the way, can be a reason people can become ho hum about the Bible). Yet when you step back and think about it, the Bible is directly from the mind of God thus it is truth itself, and it is from the higher realm above creation itself where only the Creator dwells.

If you can see and accept all this you can see why the Bible is unique among all books.

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