***The earth and all it holds proceded out from God, and it is not God. Neither is the Bible***
These are good words and true.
***but the Bible holds the wisdom of God, and all who ignore it do so at their own peril.***
If you mean ignore the wisdom of God, what exactly do you mean? The Reformed elect have no choice but to follow the indwelling HS and have no need of the Bible. The unelect can not ignore it to their utmost effort, but it means nothing since they are going to hell.
Who exactly in the Reformed universe utilizes the Bible?
***These men did not write, as you put it, “Thoughts and impressions and memories” but instead wrote what the Holy Spirit wanted us to know about God the Father and his Son.***
That doesn’t mean that the Bible you have in your possession has those characteristics; neither does it mean that the original texts were either. The Gospel according to Matthew is not equivalent to The Gospel according to God.
It is man’s feeble attempts to write about the infallible in fallible terms.
***The Reformed elect have no choice but to follow the indwelling HS and have no need of the Bible.***
The sentence is nonsense. That’s like saying “Dear, I have all the parts to assemble this gym set for the boys, you can go ahead and throw out the assembly instructions.” You’ll not see one of the Reformed who doesn’t regularly, if not daily, read and study the Bible for its wisdom, instruction, correction, and understanding from God. It is the HS who gives us understanding of what we have read.
Ah! maybe there is where the problem lies.
The Bible is "man's feeble attempts"??? Well, that explains a lot. I know Kosta's view is along these lines, but I didn't know it was the Latin view also. I was confused because of what the Catechism says (all emphasis added):
105 God is the author of Sacred Scripture. "The divinely revealed realities, which are contained and presented in the text of Sacred Scripture, have been written down under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit."69
"For Holy Mother Church, relying on the faith of the apostolic age, accepts as sacred and canonical the books of the Old and the New Testaments, whole and entire, with all their parts, on the grounds that, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author, and have been handed on as such to the Church herself."70
106 God inspired the human authors of the sacred books. "To compose the sacred books, God chose certain men who, all the while he employed them in this task, made full use of their own faculties and powers so that, though he acted in them and by them, it was as true authors that they consigned to writing whatever he wanted written, and no more."71
107 The inspired books teach the truth. "Since therefore all that the inspired authors or sacred writers affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without error teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to see confided to the Sacred Scriptures."72
On a level of basic principle, I have little problem with this. However, this is not what I am seeing from Apostolics on this thread. What gives? :)