…Is the final authority? Fail.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Are you both confusing Holy Scripture with God?
Are you denying JESUS is THE WORD?
What's to confuse??? The scripture IS God's words...Some in the form of God speaking and others in the form of inspired words from God...But they are all the words of God...
Heb 4:12 For the (written) word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Joh 12:48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my (written) words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
Psa 138:2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy (written) word above all thy name.
There's something magical about those words in that book...Those words are Spiritual...Those words are God's words...
God even magnifies those words above His name...
If you ever figure out what you are dealing with, you'll gain a little more respect for what God said...
And yes, those words of God are the final and only authority...And why is that??? You read it...The words that were spoken (and ultimately written down) will be your future judge...You'd better get the words right...
When you're kneeling before God, He's not going to ask if you were a good boy; He's going to open the book and judge you out of the things written in that book...You betcha the bible is the final authority...