What Christians mean by the "word of God".

The whole word of God thing is a bit complex because what most christians mean by this is:

• What the pastor told me I had to believe,
• because of what he was taught that something in the bible means,
• that was translated by someone,from their selection of possible texts,
• of books chosen by one particular group in the fourth cenury,
• based on the translators particular theological background,
• using modern understandings of word usage in ancient times,
• from a text copied and recopied over hundreds of years,
• which was written by a human being,
• who was usually claiming to be someone else,
• writing about things he had not directly witnessed,
• quoting conversations verbatim that he could not have heard,
• claiming that this was inspired by God.