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We'd be a bunch of religious nuts holding on to religion instead of s real relationship with God. The Bible is an idol for weak minded followers.
You know you are supposed to open it and read it, right?
Oh wow, I never thought of that, gee, thanks guy
If you had, then you would know why it is so highly respected. However the Bible came into being, God knew that it would be taken as His word. So nothing is in there that isn't a part of His intended message to us.
That last sentence is a complete fantasy. Unless He told you that directly of course. I mean, as far as cosmic assumptions go, that’s a big one. What if He expects you to understand that it’s a book written by men and not God. Which is the actual truth. I’m not saying a lot of it wasn’t inspired by the Almighty, but he didn’t sit down and write the King James Version, right? Maybe a lot of politics went into that and every other translation?
So there could be plenty in there that has nothing to do with His message. And there is.
The Bible is massively fallible. Luke and Mathew disagree on who Jesus’s granddads name is and who shows up on Jesus’s birth and how many people showed up at the tomb and who they were. That’s because those parts were written by different sects. Mathew and Luke is mostly a cut and paste of Mark.
Don’t put your faith in a book. Only God is God.
Even the part that says that you have no need of anything written on paper, because you now have the spirit of God in you?
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness 2 Timothy 3:16
For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires. Hebrews 4:12
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1
Yes, putting something else in the place of God is idolatry, but the bible IS the inspired word of God. The Lord is very clear about how highly he regards his word.
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. John 6:63
I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. Psalm 138:2
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. Mark 13:31
It is very important to have a real relationship with God, and we should be spending adequate time in worship and in prayer. We should not, however, throw away our bibles. We should be reading his word, but also doing his word.
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves. James 1:22
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Remember the scribes and the pharisees, they would walk around with magnificent robes and a phylactery on their head containing verses from scripture. Although they carried scripture with them everywhere they went, they were not seeking a relationship with God, but to be seen and revered by men for their supposed "holiness".
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“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness. Matthew 23:27
The Bible is a key to a Bigger World, but it is not the end all be all.
To me the Bible is great as far as insight goes. But for use as a life guide, it is idolatry at its finest and actually against the very words written in it. I don't need a book to know God. It's that simple.
Yep. People seem to forget the Inquisition started with religious devotion.
Yeah, too many people worship that book and their religion. It really does get in the way of a true and total connection with your Creator. As the second commandment points out. Don’t worship or call Devine anything made by the hands of men. The Bible was made by men. Yet people call it the Word of God. Yet the Bible says the Word of God is Jesus. So calling the Bible that is basic blasphemy and idolatry.
Yet here we are. People need their totems. They’re basically security blankets. God help you if you try to free them from the bindings of organized religion. They’re likely to murder you on a cross like they did to poor Jesus.