The One Single Word

The One Single Word

“You study the scriptures, believing that in them you have eternal life; now these same scriptures testify to me, and yet you refuse to come to me for life.”  (John 5: 39)

We find Jesus Christ in the Scriptures.  In the Old Testament, we find him as types:  Abraham, Isaac, Joseph, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, etc.   In the New Testament, we find the Word who has become flesh, the true image of the Father.  John 5:39 encourages us to seek Jesus in the Scriptures.  “Ask and you shall receive.  Seek and you shall find.  Knock and the door will be opened for you.”  When we seek Jesus in the Scriptures, we find him and when we find him, we find life.

The Church teaches that “Through all the words of Sacred Scripture, God speaks only one single Word, his Utterance in whom he expresses himself completely:

You recall that one and the same Word of God extends throughout Scripture, that it is one and the same Utterance that resounds in the mouths of all the sacred writers, since he who was in the beginning God with God has no need of separate syllables, for he is not subject to time.”  (CCC #102)