The Bible testifies of God and I believe its testimony is true.
The RCC, OTOH, by its many unScriptural rituals and ceremonies and doctrines of men often does not testify of God. In fact, it often diminishes the work of Christ on the cross by misstating exactly how and why we are saved -- by Christ's sacrifice and obedience alone.
The human mind that claims to "know" God as you is actually lowering God to a creation and worshiping this creation.
That's a mighty big accusation. Do you have any concrete evidence to back that up or is it just wishful thinking?
God's words are not God.
The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not... And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." -- John 1:1-5;-14"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
"The word was God."
Again, your complaint is with the Bible.
You interpret this "Word" as the Bible?
That doesn't make the Bible God, nor does it mean that we now know everything about God because of the Bible's so-called testimony, as you say. Again, the Scriptures mediate the idea of God to us, but not His inner self.
The word was God.
Yes, ONE WORD SPOKEN IN ETERNITY, not the Bible, dear sister. You are again confusing God with the bible.
In Scriptures, God is not understood abstractly in His eternal essence, as in Plato or Aristotle, but by His INTERVENTIONS here in human history, transforming our history into sacred history.
For example, Gregory of Nyssa wrote about God: "How to understand how someone comes when He is always present".
Christian praxis leads to Christian theoria. Not Bible reading.
Kosta, feel free to help me to enlighten our Protestant sister here. Easterners have a knack of explaining this well.
Regards