Re: Careful

Well Roy, it never would have entered my mind if people don't make the inference; that lovers of the Bible are in danger of worshiping it. I doubt it ever entered your mind until someone said it to you.

Those who say this also believe they can pick and choose scriptures as being God's Word, if it "rings true" to their own "spirit", and discard others as not being God's Word. They also don't believe in the Ransom, and are offended by it; they call it "The Penal Substitution Theory". The fact that the word Ransom is in scripture matters not to them--since they believe Christ lives in them, and feel they've "evolved" in "enlightenment" and know more than the Apostles knew--or even Jesus himself knew while on earth. So the bible, they say, is only a reflection of mankind's beliefs about God in those days, that wasn't as "enlightened" as they are.

Their warnings of "worshiping the bible" is a line that is intended to cast doubt on scripture being God's Word because it exposes their own teachings as false. THEY want to be the authority, based on their own ideas.--rhonda