7. God Revealed Through the Scriptures.
There
were many prophets who received revelations from God who never, as far as we
know, put them in written form. As noted above in No. 5, there were many
prophets in the New Testament church who never wrote any Scripture. It seems
evident that if God wanted His people to possess a complete revelation of His
will the best way to preserve that revelation intact for succeeding generations
was to put it in written form. We could have little, if any, assurance of an
oral tradition even approximating the original after being passed down for
nineteen centuries by word of mouth. We would have nothing by which to check
its accuracy. Therefore we believe that God directed certain of the prophets
and apostles to put into written form the revelations which were given to them,
and further, that the Holy Spirit so superintended their writing as to record
exactly what God wanted recorded. While some New Testament books may have been
written after Paul’s prison epistles, he states that it was the revelation of
the truth of the mystery which fulfills or completes (plerosai--fills up
to completion) the word of God (Colossians 1:23-27).
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