Cheryl Schatz

George, welcome to my blog. I am grateful that you were willing to share your discomfort with some of the material and that you persisted to the end. Below are several verses put together that should also help in understanding how God the Father teaches through His Word. Hebrews 1:1 God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, The prophets is the Word of God. God spoke to them and they wrote His words. The Word of God is the revelation FROM the Father ABOUT the Son. Jesus is there in the Old Testament although in a more hidden way, and Jesus is completely revealed in the words FROM Jesus and ABOUT Jesus in the New Testament. So when we come to this verse… John 6:45 “It is written in the prophets, ‘AND THEY SHALL ALL BE TAUGHT OF GOD.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me. …we can understand this to mean that everyone who hears and learns from the Bible (which is the revelation from God the Father) WILL come to faith in Jesus. The Bible is our teacher and God speaks through it. When one believes God through what he/she reads in the Bible, that person will be given a revelation of who Jesus is so that the person puts their faith in Jesus. God has placed within us a knowledge of God as we have a conscious and we can see the work of His hands. However, God mainly speaks through the Bible. Understanding that it is the Bible that has God speaking to us, we can understand that “in His Son” in Hebrews 1:2 does not mean that we are looking to hear a voice to hear. Jesus speaks through His Word. Hebrews 1:2 in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. So I can say with certainty that you did hear the teaching from the Father and you learned from Him, and because of the revelation of God’s Word, you came to believe in Jesus.