[pastorbillrandles]

Thanks Mrs RobRoy...I appreciate the feedback. Are you saying you once were a “Bible Worshipper”? I am glad to hear that you believe the message of Christ, so do I. But how do you know what the actual message of Christ is, without the Bible?The way to look at the Bible is the Way Jesus did, He treated it as the written Word of God, saying things like, “Father...thy word is ruth” and “the scripture cannot be broken” and in his battle with Satan, He responded to the temptation with these words, “It is written...”. Why would He who is the incarnate Word of God, have to say “It is written...”? He is showing us that the Bible is the written word of God and that as a man, He puts himself under the authority of the Word of God, citing it, rather than his own personal feelings on the subject.

[robroys woman]

Are you saying you once were a “Bible Worshipper”?

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No, but bordering on it. I got clarification when I moved from Seattle to the Bible belt where a lot of folk do tend to err in the direction of bible worship. They are fairly easy to spot for two reasons: First, they are virtually always “KJV only” and, second, they cling to their own interpretations of specific verses with a vengeance, even if they are 60 years old and the only thing they know about the particular verse is what they learned in VBS when they were a kid.

The bible is simply not what so many people think it is. And often the “contradictions” people see are not contradictions in what the bible says but, rather, contradictions in interpretations.

[robroys woman]

But how do you know what the actual message of Christ is, without the Bible?

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I have lots of bibles. But I guess the answer would be prayer and, as I mentioned before, a personal relationship with him. And belief.

Most of the early believers did not have bibles, nor could they read.

[robroys woman]

Why would He who is the incarnate Word of God, have to say “It is written...”?

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To drive the point home.

It would be like arguing politics with someone today and saying, “it said so here [insert written source here].”

By Jesus saying “it is written”, and the reader knowing what writing he was talking about, gives what was written credibility. He is actually amplifying what He said was written in a way that only He could, since He is God in flesh.

[boatbums]

Well stated.