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While I accept this idea of “the mind of Christ” (very strongly in fact, based on personal experience) I think its more helpful to see people’s deepening faith as a journey. The more you read, the more you experience - in fact, the more you live - the more conformed you become to what God wants of you, which basically is that you should be the most complete “you” that you can be (I have come that you might have life in all its fullness).

Being able to read the Bible is very useful because it accelerates the process, but before the printing presses people still had the bible read to them. People had the bible illustrated to them, stained glass windows in churches for example, and of course there is a very, very strong tradition of having bible stories “acted out” to people (so-called “mystery plays”).

But I concur - there is a strand in modern Christianity that seems to believe the third person of the trinity is not the Holy Spirit but Holy Scripture. Reading the bible is good, but it is not the only way God reveals himself to creation.

Being able to read the Bible is very useful because it accelerates the process, but before the printing presses people still had the bible read to them. People had the bible illustrated to them, stained glass windows in churches for example, and of course there is a very, very strong tradition of having bible stories “acted out” to people (so-called “mystery plays”).

Precisely!!!

( But I concur - there is a strand in modern Christianity that seems to believe the third person of the trinity is not the Holy Spirit but Holy Scripture. Reading the bible is good, but it is not the only way God reveals himself to creation. )

It's was the Holy Spirit who inspired those who wrote the Bible, however, the bible does tell us that in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God and the word became flesh ( Jesus Christ ).
It's all how you put it in context and perspective.
God reveals himself to us in many ways, as in nature, other people, and ( yes, still today ) by his own voice, but, first and foremost he reveals himself through and by his word that was written by God's chosen writers who were " INSPIRED " by the Holy Spirit.
There are some things in the Bible that can only be understood by being enlighten by the Holy Spirit, and truth revealed to those who are filled by the Holy Spirit, the average unregenerate natural man can not nor ever understand and comprehend many things in the Bible.