The written form of the Word of God does not exist in the bible apart from revelation and proclamation, and likewise proclamation does not exist apart from the written and revealed forms, and lastly the revealed form does not exist apart from the written and proclaimed form. The Word of God therefore is in threefold form, consisting of the past revelation of Jesus, the written human witness in scripture, and the preaching of the Bible in the church's proclamation. It does not become God’s Word because we accord it faith but in the fact that it becomes revelation to us." The Bible does not become the Word of God when it is read by a human voice, but only has a human voice proclaims it in the church. Barth explained "the Bible, then, becomes God’s Word in this event, and in the statement that the Bible is God’s Word the little word 'is' refers to its being in this becoming.
Hence, that old family bible laying dormant in an attic box among mothballs is not the Word of God.īarth then argues the Bible becomes the Word of God when it is proclaimed by the living human voice of the Church, and only in that event may the Bible be rightly called the Word of God. Is the Bible the Word of God? Karl Barth answered No! because "the Bible is not in itself and as such God’s past revelation" and that "we thus do the Bible poor and unwelcome honour if we equate it directly with this other, with revelation itself." and "the direct identification between revelation and the Bible which is in fact at issue is not one that we can presuppose or anticipate." Barth did not believe that the Word of God was simply identical to the Holy Bible or any other printed book, and to believe a printed book collecting dust on a shelf is the Word of God is pure superstition.
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