The Lord Jesus Christ is the Word of God. But He is not the only (lower
case) word of God that the Bible speaks of.
Sometimes it is asserted that the Bible is not the “word of
God,” but rather, that term is reserved for Jesus alone.
This comes up in conversation with some who are under the broad umbrella
of progressive Christianity, those who not only deny the doctrine of inerrancy,
but who will even dismiss considerable portions of the Bible because, in their
minds, they contradict what Jesus taught. Jesus is the special and unique “word
of God,” and rather than seeing if what He says in the Gospels can be harmonized with the rest of
scripture, it is believed that Jesus simply takes precedence and anything that seems to disagree with Him does disagree and therefore can be rejected. The rest of scripture is not of the same divine origin as what Jesus says in
the Gospels.
