Err... did you get that from the Bible??
Minus_The_Bear
The Bible is God’s *WORD*...and Christianity is about proclaiming JESUS CHRIST to ALL people—everybody needs salvation, whether they be gay or straight, an abortionist or a pro-life activist, Democrat or Republican— the only way to Heaven is through *saving* faith in Jesus Christ. Christ didn’t come to take Caesar’s position “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s” —He did not come to establish a moral crusade—the Jews were already living righteously, at least outwardly.
Only CHRIST can truly and wholly transform and save sinners (of which we are all), and transformed, redeemed individuals can transform society from the inside out. The Manhattan Declaration is focusing on the outside in.
We as Christians are to put our faith and hope and trust in GOD and the work of the HOLY SPIRIT. And the HOLY SPIRIT works through us most powerfully when we boldly preach and live out the unadulterrated truth of the Gospel of Our Lord, JESUS CHRIST. Glory to the KING and HIS KINGDOM, which NO earthly government can ever beat.
You mention the supposed “deification of the Bible”
From the Gospel of “Saint” John:
Chapter 1
1In the beginning was the WORD, and the Word was with God, and the Word WAS God.
2He was with God in the beginning.
3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
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14 THE WORD BECAME FLESH and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
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“In the beginning was the WORD”
CHRIST is “The Word made Flesh.”
CHRIST is the rock of our salvation. HE is the rock on which we stand or fall.
No the Bible is not God, but it is a complete revelation of Him by Him and for His glory.
If you were long separated from the one you love and then you got a letter from him/her would it not be a treasure? If in that letter your loved one revealed wondrous things you would have no way of knowing.. wouldn’t you read it over and over ?
The letter is not your loved one... but it is something that draws you closer , helps you to know them better and makes faithfulness a joy..