What I wrote about the Word and the Bible and the Church was a specific answer to something you wrote, specifically this:
“We discover Him through the Bible, and/or through the Church. They are dependent upon each other. For if the Bible was not a necessary component and the Word also, then why do they both testify of the other?”
You corrected this to read:
“For if the Church was not a necessary component and the Word also, then why do they both testify of the other?”
I saw in this a conflation of “The Word” and “The Bible”, to which I responded with my characteristic vigor.
If that is not what you meant, than I apologize (and ask you to restate what you DID mean, because I read you saying that the Church and the Word - by which in that context you mean the Bible - are a necessary component of each other).
I always capitalize Word when I mean Bible simply because it is the written word and Bible is capitalized. I revere the Bible...I do not worship it. I worship the Savior who is written in it. I don’t mean to confuse word (Bible) with LOGOS as in John...but I do think John was indicating a relationship between Christ/Logos/word/thought. God spoke the world into existence.
...It really is very difficult to convey meaning in this type of format. As I said, I do appreciate the time you have taken to teach me.
Do you think it is not possible for inerrancy to creep into the Church? Because I do. Now granted, again my experience with the RC is limited. I am talking about..um..let us say...the LDS Church. You see, I saw all kinds of errors in their doctrine, their authority, and their hierarchy... and so I was led far, far away from God. I distanced myself as far from religion and Jesus Christ as I could because of it.
If you please.