NOTES for Pe1 2:1-3

In today's reading the apostle Peter calls us to love the Word of God as a newborn infant loves milk. For an infant, loving milk is natural; more than that, he loves nothing else, because milk is his only food! So what - should the Bible be our only source of information? From today on, should we read nothing except the Bible and send all books to the recycling pile? Or should we ignore the words of the apostle Peter and choose the information that seems most suitable to us at the moment?

It is doubtful that the apostle Peter meant to say that the Word of God is the only word to which one should listen and which one should hear. But he certainly meant that His word must be more important to us than any other word. After all, the Bible does not give us exhaustive information on every existing question (for example, questions of theoretical grammar are not addressed in it). But if there is a contradiction between some philosophical theory I find appealing and the Word of God, I choose the Word of God; otherwise I am not a Christian. The same applies to questions of morals and ethics: the criterion of the truth of any statement is the Word; it is precisely the pure milk and true food for us.