[1000 silverlings]

Amen X. The bible is a compilation of the thoughts of God and only the Holy Spirit is capable of understanding the mind of God. Having received the HS from Christ, we have the mind of Christ and are therefore able to understand the depths of God's wisdom. Only Spiritual is capable of understanding Spiritual and that is why why none of us will ever denigrate God's holy Word.

The Word is not a created thing-- it was with God before the creation of the world, it is holy and therefore deserving of our worship, the same as Christ.

[Judith Anne]

The bible is a compilation of the thoughts of God and only the Holy Spirit is capable of understanding the mind of God. Having received the HS from Christ, we have the mind of Christ and are therefore able to understand the depths of God's wisdom.

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[papertyger]

...we have the mind of Christ and are therefore able to understand the depths of God's wisdom.

You got a mouse in your pocket?

Who's this "we" you're talking about?

Sounds kinda Gnostic to me.

[Mad Dawg]

The Word is not a created thing-- it was with God before the creation of the world, it is holy and therefore deserving of our worship, the same as Christ.

I'm asking this because of your statement and because somebody else said John 1:1 referred to the Bible. Can we therefore paraphrase John thus:

(1) ...The Bible was with God and the Bible was God
(3) (All things were made by the Bible - paraphrase)
(10) The Bible was in the world, and the world was made through the Bible and the world knew the Bible not.
(14) and the Bible was made flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld the Bible's glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father.

How far does this view go with the indentification of John 1:1 with the Bible and with the Bible's meriting worship (not veneration but worship)?

[netmilsmom]

>>The Word is not a created thing— it was with God before the creation of the world, it is holy and therefore deserving of our worship, the same as Christ<<

So you worship the Word the same as Christ. That’s why some non-Catholics carry their Bibles like a talisman.

I thought so, Bible worship, I’ve seen it many times.

[nanetteclaret]

You might want to go back and read those Scripture verses again:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was 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

The Word = Jesus Christ, not the Bible