Psalm 119:9-16 9How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. 10 With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! 11I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. 12Blessed are you, O LORD; teach me your statutes! 13With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth. 14In the way of your testimonies I delight as much as in all riches. 15I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways. 16I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.
It sure looks like GOD thought writing down His word was important. What what that Moses brought down from the mountain but the very words of GOD that GOD HIMSELF inscribed with His finger for man to know.
Exodus 32:15-19 15Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets that were written on both sides; on the front and on the back they were written. 16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets. 17When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is a noise of war in the camp." 18But he said, "It is not the sound of shouting for victory, or the sound of the cry of defeat, but the sound of singing that I hear." 19And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses’ anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.
Exodus 34:1 1The LORD said to Moses, "Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Exodus 34:27-28 27And the LORD said to Moses, "Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel." 28 So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
I simply find it incredulous that any human would dare criticize or pass judgment on God for writing the written word of Scripture when God Himself wrote it. Obviously God saw the value in doing so. Who are we to criticize God for doing that?
What chutzpah.
"..the Church does not draw her certainty about all revealed truths from the holy Scriptures alone. Hence, both Scripture and Tradition must be accepted and honored with equal feelings of devotion and reverence." -Second Vatican Council, "Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation" no. 9.
God has magnified His word above His name. Not the RCC's traditions and doctrines. If they accept that, then "poof", out goes their religion, based on traditions and doctrines.
They cannot afford to have anything above their own man-made religion. Especially not God's word. They would fold like a cheap umbrella.
If Protestantism is really correct that Scripture is the ONLY thing necessary for Salvation why is it that Protestant services are not comprised entirely of Bible reading and why are there so darned many Protestants publishing theological works and dissertations? Wouldn't they by redundant or superfluous?
I think we can pretty well conclude that those who wish to subjugate the Holy Scriptures do so because they know the Scriptures prove their own doctrines to be false.