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>>Ankerberg: And the fact is now you have got, again, 30 AD Jesus dies, passes off the
scene. In this time you have got the apostles living and talking and teaching. And you have
got, the fact is, the hymns and you have got the creedal statements. And you know, one
of those creedal statements I really love that is easy to remember is Peter saying,
“You killed him, God raised him.” [Acts 3:14-15] I am just saying that’s pretty
easy: “You killed him, God raised him.” But the thing is then, with the sacrament
you have a consistency of message going down. And then, now the apostles start to put this
stuff into writing. Let me ask you two questions here, what did they call what they said? And
what did they call what they wrote?
>>Bock: That is two questions with one answer. And that is they called both of them the word
of God. The preached word of the Gospel was the word of God. The written word of the apostles
in these letters that they sent to the churches and the Gospels that were written by them
or by their people who work with them was the word of God. It was all a message from
God. In fact, that is part of what the word of God is. It is the idea that this is a message
from God; this is a revelation or a disclosure that comes from him. And that is where it
gets its authority from, that is where it gets its credibility from. And so this Gospel
message was a message for humanity from the living God.
>>Ankerberg: It is a mind blower to believe that these guys, when they spoke, believed
that they were giving the word of God; and that when they wrote, they were actually writing
the word of God that we would have.