The Psalms are the word of Christ

[awareness]

Originally Posted by zeek

Right, cuz if they were the words of Jesus, wouldn't they be red?

You're right. The Psalms is not a red letter book.

[aron]

Originally Posted by awareness

You're right. The Psalms is not a red letter book.

Not to drag the issue too far afield, but the whole "red letter" idea runs into problems elsewhere, as well. In the book of Revelation, Christ speaks (red letter) to John through the angel, but at some point the speaking is no longer Christ but the angel: "Don't worship me; I am your fellow servant". This is after the angel says, "I Jesus have sent my angel to tell you this & that". See e.g Revelation 19:9,10, and 22:6-20. The speaking is clearly "God", but the speaker is merely a messenger.

And in the Psalms the problem is so knotty as to be insurmountable, I think. We have clear "words of Christ" - "My God, my God, why have you forsaken Me?" You have God speaking to the psalmist about Christ; You have the psalmist marveling to God about His Christ; you have etc, etc.

So by giving this thread the title "The Psalms are the word of Christ" I didn't mean to imply that in a red letter Bible the whole book would be in red. Just that the book seems to have a lot more "words of Christ" than WL told us. The master allegorizer WL simply folded up his tent and quit when he hit the Psalms. "Move along, folks; nothing to see here". And thousands of LC sheep moved along, cuz WL said so. Red letters, indeed.