Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

WORD OF GOD

A symbol of the expression of Divine Truth in the various scriptures of the world.

"The spiritual sense of the Word is not that which shines forth from the literal sense. While one is searching and explaining the Word to confirm some dogma of the Church, this sense may be called the literal sense of the Word. But the spiritual sense does not appear in the literal sense; it is interiorly within it, as the soul is in the body, as the thought of the understanding is in the eyes, and as the affection of love is in the countenance, which act together as cause and effect. It is this sense chiefly which renders the Word spiritual, not only for men, but also for angels; there. fore the Word by this sense communicates with the heavens." - SWEDENBorg, T.C.R., n. 194.

“Propose me anything out of this Book (the Bible), and require whether I believe it or not, and seem it never so incomprehensible to human reason, I will subscribe it with hand and heart, as knowing no demonstration can be stronger than this; God hath said so, therefore it is true. . . . I am fully assured that God does not, and therefore that men ought not, to require any more of any man than this to believe the Scripture to be God's word, to endeavour to find the true sense of it, and to live according to it." - CHILLINGWORTH, Works, p. 354.

When the mind is fully convinced from evidence and reason that the Scriptures are the Word of God and of transcendental origin, in no way vitiated by human inventions and imaginings, then it consistently holds of the inspired Word-" God hath said so, therefore it is true." This is logical and straightforward, free from the ruinous contradictions of modern theology, but there remains the all-important question of the correct interpretation of the Word of Truth. Now, as the literal sense of the Scriptures is in most cases absurd and false, the logical mind is forced to imagine symbolical meanings. Preachers cannot do without them, and sometimes admit, as did Robertson of Brighton, that "Scripture language is symbolical."

See Also

 AMBAYAVIS
GOSPEL
INSPIRATION
KORAN
MYTHOLOGY
Papyrus
PEN
REVELATION
SACRED TEXT
SASTRA
SCRIPTURES, SACRED
UPANISHAD
UR-HEKAU
VEDA