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Book Review The God Who Speaks Book Review by Peter Basirico
The documentary Movie ‘The God Who Speaks’ is a production of the American Family Association and is a real gem! Everyone with a genuine, biblically based faith should view this excellent production. Many ‘heroes of the faith’, pastors, scholars, apologists, Christian professors are interviewed. Men like Alistair Begg, Doctor R. C. Sproul, Norman Geisler, Doctor D. A. Carson, Apologist Frank Turek, and more, contribute. Their expertise on biblical truths is displayed so effectively by those who created this work. Their collective
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purpose is to proclaim the historical, theological, and ethical magnificence of the Scriptures. We will propose to put forth the why and how of this surpassing truth. Quoting one of the many contributors, ‘When the Scriptures speak, God speaks. ‘Mankind is set apart from all other creatures by His ability to use language. The bible is not just black and white print on paper. Christians believe that God spoke the entirety of the Scriptures and superintended men to write His words down. As a personal God, a speaking God, He wanted communication with the humans He had created in His image. The Bible tells us what the True God is like. Without this word from God, man could not reveal the deep truths this God wants us to know, especially how to enter into a personal relationship with the living God. To be as clear and concise as possible, the bible’s main purpose for existing is to reveal Jesus the Savior to mankind. Another name for Jesus is The WORD, or in Greek, the Logos, or the “Logic’ of God. The entire Scriptures, Old and New Testaments alike, reveal the person and work of Jesus. To a confused pair of disciples returning from Jerusalem and all the events that had recently taken (Luke Chapter 24), ‘and beginning with Moses and all the prophets, He interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself: In other words, Jesus is the fulfillment of
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God’s total revelation! Because Jesus is the Word, the Logos, the logic of God, He is the final word of God’s intelligibility. God wants to be understood. Part of the work of the Protestant Reformation was to make the scriptures clear, therefore believers were encouraged to read the Bible in their own language. One of the main themes of “The God who speaks’ is apologetics, defending the Christian faith, which True believers must eventually encounter. The Authors of the bible were in most cases eye-witnesses to the events which they wrote down, again superintended by the Spirit of God. The authors, mostly handpicked Apostles of Jesus, record what one of the speakers calls ‘impact events. Psychologically these are events which are deeply embedded in our psyche. Examples include where a person was when the planes hit the Twin Towers. These are unforgettable moments. Bible writers were led to record the events lest they be forgotten! It must be remembered that Legend tells us that all the Apostles were martyred. The greatest ‘Impact event’ in the lives of these apostles would have been the resurrection of their Lord Jesus. They all concur, the Gospel writers, that Jesus died, was buried, and rose from the dead and were willing to die for that Truth. Because the Authors of the Bible were led to produce documents certifying historical events, we have the most historically attested text in human history. If someone attempts to deny the historical reliability of the Scripture, they will have to discard all Greco-Roman history first, Medieval history as well. As one of the Scholars alleges in the documentary, if you are going to be skeptical about the New Testament, you will need to be one thousand
times more skeptical about GrecoRoman history. We will close our review of ‘The God Who Speaks’ with the desire that any who have dismissed the Bible, as ‘just another book out of the dusty past’ will be encouraged to view this book in a whole New Light. Some may argue, well the Bible is valuable as Literature, which it is, and may contain some valuable theology and perhaps some of it may contain Words from God, but… The great Apostle Paul, the Author of portion of a large portion of the New Testament tells us in (2nd Timothy 3:16) that “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly equipped for every good work.” This translates ‘All Scripture is God=breathed. God’s authority is inherent in all the text. When Jesus was temped in the desert by satan, He, the Son of God, answered, “Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ‘The God Who Speaks’ is a must viewing for anyone who loves their Bible and it’s Author and wants to share that Love with those in his/ hers sphere of influence.
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