Is it the Law?
Is it a set of Christian principles?
Is it a book of Theology?
Is it merely history?
Is it simply fine literature?
Or is it what it says it is:

The Bible claims but one author - God - who it says moved on 40 men at different times over a 1600 year span to write His words down. It says therefore it is God's Word to man. (2 Tim 3:16,2 Pet 1 :21 )

" . . . you received the word of God. . . not as the word of men but as it is in truth the word of God. . ." (1 Thes 2:13)

Originally the first section of God's Word, the Old Covenant that included the 10 commandments, was a set of Laws. However no human was ever able to keep God's Law because of fleshly weakness, save one - Jesus Christ. He fulfilled God's Law by leading a perfect sinless life. This then uniquely qualified Him to bear upon himself the sins of the whole human race so that any person could have access to God by simply accepting and believing that Jesus was judged for his sins instead of him. The instant anyone does he receives a new heart. In this way access to Heaven is a free gift that we receive by faith and is not dependant on our earning favor with God by the things we do or don't do.
(Heb 4: 15, Eze 36:26, Eph 2:8) ...
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