Why do some Christians believe we were created by a book?

Question

"In the beginning was the Word..." and of course that means the word of God and therefore the Bible. It couldn't be figurative, oh no!

Answer 1

in the beginning was the voice. Writing had not been "created" until long after. He spoke to Adam and Eve directly. So do I think we were made from a recipe. NO.
I believe the entire bible is a metaphorical, historical document. It should not be entirely dismissed as the lessons contained are helpful, but sometimes you must forget the literal translation and read between the lines.

Answer 2

I am tempted to try to express the truth. The problem is that the truth is never very appreciated, so it sometimes seems a waste of time. As Lao Tsu said, "When the superior man hears of the Tao he treasures it and keeps to it always. When the inferior man hears of the Tao, he laughs out loud: if he did not laugh, it would not be the Tao". The way Jesus expressed the same idea was, "Do not cast pearls before the pigs, or they will trample them into the dirt, and then, annoyed at not getting what they wanted, will turn on you."

John said "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with god and the word was god, and from that word all that was made, was made", but there are people who seriously think that the "Word" is the bible. In the beginning, when nothing existed, no time or space, or matter or light and dark, there it was, a leather bound book floating round, and even though nothing had been created; no planets, and no men or plants, or animals, no paper and no books, there is this book floating in the void, full of stories about Kane and Abel, and Moses, and the flood, and the ark and the animals.

Of course, the Word or Tao, comes before everything but is not superseded by what comes after it. The Word continues, and is the source of all. God did not create the Universe and then go away: God, the Word, The Tao, is still here, and speaks afresh every day, and in every age. When Jesus came to tell people the truth, few listened, and of the few, even fewer understood, and his greatest enemy was the organised religion of the time. If God sent a messenger today to tell people the truth, there would be even more organised religions to get in his way.

The organised religions do not want a living god: they want a dead one. They can read what god said 1500 or 2000 years ago, interpret it the way they want, and be righteous by their own ideas and standards. Yes, really secure and complacent. What would happen to all the head men of religion if the boss himself came along and told them what he really wants. Last time he tried it they nailed him to a cross, so I guess this time he couldn't look for a much better reception.

So, The Word is not the bible, and it is not Jesus, as he came after the beginning too, but he was an expression of the Word "The word made flesh".

Answer 3

The Word is refering to Jesus
" In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and the word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made" John 1:1-3.
Oh no indeed! You see the Bible is the written word of God, creation is the spoken word of God (God spoke everything into existence at the creation Genisis 1) and Jesus is the Word in this passage. So no the bible did not create everything. Indeed God created the bible, because God created everything!

Answer 4

This is from John's gospel, in which the author used a pre-existent concept well-known in the Greek-speaking world. The word usually translated as 'Word' is 'Logos', and it is difficult to adequately translate into English or into any modern language. Its better meaning in this context is 'Reason', or 'Cause'. Greeks considered the Logos to be an abstract but rational First Cause for the universe, but here John is saying that the First Cause is a person, namely, Jesus. It is clear that John referred to Jesus, not to an abstraction or a book:

'The Logos became flesh and, full of grace and truth, lived among us. We have seen his glory.' John 1:14

This is not unlike Paul's statement to Athenians:

'Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: "Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious, because when I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: 'To an Unknown God'. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you."' Acts 17:22-23

Answer 5

The word is a language not a book and God is the only one who knows how to speak this language that he creates with.

Answer 6

You've actually met some Christians who think we were created by a book?
Hmm.
I believe God spoke... the world into being and from that He molded clay into the human form and breathed life into him.
Genesis.
Oh wait... you "figured" it out!

Answer 7

what you quoted in your question is specifying about Christ. Christ is the word of God and in Him we all were created Throgh Him we all created, and for Him we all created.

the book bible came into existence only after all the 40 authores completed writting and its compilation.

so none of the christians will believe that a book created us, we believe that we were created by God's word that is Christ Jesus.

Answer 8

The word of God is not the bible, the bible is merely a collection of the word of God. It was spoken well before it was written.

Answer 9

Actually, they do not believe we are created by a book. They believe we are created by god when he breathe life into the allegedly first human being alive, about 6000 years ago.

Answer 10

Yes and why do a small minority of people think that life just happened along. A day there was nothing and then there was life. Very believable.