Through Scripture, we know our sin, we see His salvation, and we know He rules and reigns, and Christ will one day return to judge the living and the dead. In that light, we both know who Christ is, why God saved us, who we were before a Holy God without Christ and who we are before God in Christ, and how we are to live in light of such a great salvation. But we are not given all. Like Moses, our unglorified bodies could not handle the fullness of His splendor (Exodus 33:12-23), so we see through a glass dimly, knowing, trusting, God told us the secret things belong to Him. 

God constrained our knowledge of Him to the Bible as a means for us to think right thoughts about Him.

True statements can often be twisted by those who aim to use it for their gain.

“God is bigger than the Bible,” is one such.

That statement, while true, is frequently used by those who seek to undermine the sufficiency of Scripture over our daily lives and seeks to supplant it with a version of God fashioned from their imagination.

Yes, God is bigger than the Bible. John himself said in his Gospel account in John 21:25 that, “Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.”

The Scriptures: Worthy Of Our Reflection and Study

The Scriptures are  a collection of 66 books. They are the way in which God chose to reveal Himself worthy of our reflection and study not only in this article but for all of our days. We know there is so much more to God that has not been revealed in His word because His Word states as much.

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