No. It calls Jesus that.
This is the argument I've had more times than any other, and it usually ends the same way: with the other person going looking for a verse that says the Bible is the word of God, and not finding one.
Here's what the text actually assigns that title to. John 1:1:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And John 1:14: “And the Word became flesh and lived among us.”
Then Revelation 19:13, describing the rider on the white horse:
He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is called The Word of God.
That's the phrase, and it's a person.
The verse people reach for is 2 Timothy 3:16: “All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.”
Two problems with using it the way it gets used.
The first is that whoever wrote that sentence was not talking about the New Testament, because there wasn't one. The Christian collection didn't exist. The first list matching the twenty-seven books now printed together dates to the year 367, and councils were still ratifying contents at the end of that century. “Scripture,” in that letter, means the Jewish scriptures.
The second is that “inspired” is not “identical to.” The verse says scripture is God-breathed and useful. It doesn't say it's God's speech, it doesn't say it's without error, and it doesn't hand it the title that John and Revelation give to somebody else.
And then there's the practical version of the argument. Mary didn't have a Bible. Neither did Peter, or Paul, or any of the people named as gospel writers. The first converts were converted without one. Nobody in the New Testament is ever asked what they think about a book, because the book they'd be asked about was still centuries from being assembled.
The standard reply is that the Bible is God's word functionally — the record through which God speaks, whatever it calls itself. That's a defensible position, and it's a different one from what gets preached. It concedes that the title is honorary rather than textual, and once you've conceded that, you've given up the move that matters, which is settling arguments by holding up the book.
A collection of ancient documents written by people over roughly a thousand years, in three languages, assembled by committee, is a real and interesting thing. It just isn't what it's been advertised as, and it never claimed to be.
I write about what’s actually in the Bible, as opposed to what people are told is in it. The free guide below covers twelve verses that are in your Bible and were never in the sermon.
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