***Correct. Theology is based on faith. Faith preceded scriputres. ***
Horrors. Do you mean that Abraham didn’t have a KJV tucked into his back pocket? Didn’t Melchizedek have an NIV hanging around his neck along with the sacred stones? Wasn’t a Gideon’s carried in a display case on top of the Ark?
I had a debate once with a conservative Church of Christ long term pastor in Texas once who, once he lost his temper, informed me that if the KJV was good enough for Jesus it was good enough for him and was sure to be good enough for me.
The CofC doesn’t teach history at all because theirs is woefully short and weak and they don’t want to admit the splits and doctrinal changes and they sure don’t want to admit that their theology was influenced by various apostates such as Sidney Rigdon who was a close friend of the Campbells and Walter Scott (who started the Disciples of Christ / Church of Christ movement along with Barton Stone) and who jumped ship and joined the LDS and largely wrote its theology under the direction of Joseph Smith.
In both these churches, scriptures preceded faith. In both these cases, God is the creation of the men who wrote Scripture (in the case of the LDS) or who interpreted it without the guidance of the Church.