What a difference this would make!
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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.
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?
It us the Spirit of God that guides me in the reading of His word, as well as in the living of life. In this you are right that we should always be listening for God's guidance. Sometimes, He uses the ancient texts of the Bible, other times He uses contemporary works, people, or even supernatural visions. It is that Spirit that helps me to know that it is indeed God attempting to reach me via those things.
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.
You are right about that, and no doubt some people put too much faith in the book itself, like a charm, but most people do have faith in God first. My point is only that God would know that the Bible would be taken as his Word, no matter how the Bible came into being. While there are issues with trying to Express the perfect nature of God in vastly imperfect and limited human language, God meant for every thing in there to be in there. If a passage doesn't make sense, I think it's becuase we're doing it wrong. We're actually mostly in agreement. Care must be taken to put our faith only in God. I'm just saying the Bible offers the best and most complete insight into God's nature and relationship with us. I don't think many will be lead astray by a return to Biblical based teaching however, becuase it is God's Word and will lead most to God.