Gentlemen - do we not know that Jesus Christ and not the Scriptures is the Word of God!!
Jesus Christ is the "pure Word of God" simply because He is pure and He is God - Did the Scriptures explain that to you????????
Didn't you read that you were supposed to be seeking Him and listening to Him???
Didn't you also read about those religious people who were looking to the Scriptures instead of seeking Him?
Rev 19:13 (KJV) And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
(NASV) He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.
The version explain that same thing!! And they explain that He is the Word of God - not the Scriptures!!!
Jn 5:39, 40 (KJV)Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
(NASB) You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.
Are you not doing like they did back then????
Gal 3:22 (KJV) But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
(NASB) But the Scripture has shut up everyone under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
The Holy Spirit once told me, "We don't use the Lord to preach the Scriptures we use the Scriptures to preach the Lord!"