I think that your assertion that Rick Warren wants his book to be equal to the Bible is wholesale inaccurate and an unChristian slam against a Godly man.
I wonder what you will say about that when we all have to give an account for every idle word.
I wonder what you will say about that when we all have to give an account for every idle word.
It isn't my assertion - it is Warren's. He says in his introduction:
This is more than a book; it is a guide to a 40-day spiritual journey that will enable you to discover the answer to life’s most important question: What on earth am I here for? By the end of this journey you will know God’s purpose for your life and will understand the big picture—how all the pieces of your life fit together. Having this perspective will reduce your stress, simplify your decisions, increase your satisfaction, and, most important, prepare you for eternity.
Notice that he says it is MORE than a book, that his book is the key to understanding God's will for your life, and that this will reduce your stress, simplify your decisions, etc. That is just one paragraph. In another, he says: Don’t just read this book. Interact with it. You cannot interact with a book or anything else - although some technologies make you think so be they have preprogrammed things according to their expected responses from you. Compare Warren's own ideas about his book to the Word of God about the Word of God:
For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His. Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, through following the same example of disobedience. For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.
He does put his book right up there with scripture if not above because he says his is the book that will lead you on a journey that will result in all these good things. That not only is in disagreement with the above scriptures, but also with 1 John 4 which says that any teaching/point of a story/etc that says that God Himself became flesh, once for all (to accomplish what we cannot) is a truth from God. But it says, if it isn't, then it is of the antichrist teaching. Strong words - but not mine. At best, Warren says his book is as good as scripture in what it will accomplish - what it will do for your "journey".
I would like to see your scritpural basis for what you said. Can you? If not, then why not? I much prefer to go top the source of Truth then flinging personal innuendos and ad hominen arguments, don't you?