I am saying that God spoke, and all things came to be, an exact representation of what He willed. So we can discern His Word in both what He created and what He inspired.
God did not create Evil per se. Evil exists because God created wills which were capable of opposing His will, and some of them did. It is a privation of the good, since Evil cannot create anything, it can only grab and twist, pollute and ruin what God made; it can just say "No."
God IS the Master of all things. The devils in Hell know this, and tremble.
“No, I’m not lifting up man to God’s status. That would be an absurdity, since our knowledge and virtue are as nothing compared with His.”
You lifted up evolutionary theory, a creation of man, to the level of infallible scripture. If evolution is true, there is no doctrine of original sin, since, actually, all the organisms in the world were living and dying and “evolving” long before death could enter the world through Adam’s fall.
Then why did you say actual scientific evidence ...is just as authoritative as Scripture? You say one thing and when questioned you say something different and what is already known. The little dance of evading to back up your own words of scientific evidence ...is just as authoritative as Scripture is noted in each post.
So we can discern His Word in both what He created and what He inspired.
Christians BELIEVE His Word - and His Word is spiritually discerned. His Word can't be discerned through nature but by His Spirit.
Again, here's another non answer God did not create Evil per se.
I posted 'Evil is real and is God the master of that? in response to your I mean that God is the Master of all reality. BACKING away from your own words, once again, we not desire to correct your own words.
and not just the Master of the text.
Text? What is 'text' about this...
"For the Word of God is ALIVE and ACTIVE. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart." Heb 4:6
Man made teachings are text, merely, words instituted by man to be believe by those easily duped/deceived. “in order that no advantage be taken of us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes” (2 Corinthians 2:11)
Now back to your first words of this post No, I'm not lifting up man to God's status. That would be an absurdity, since our knowledge and virtue are as nothing compared with His.
Yet you believe in the 'infallibility' of certain men? So much for your 'no, I'm not lifting up man to God's status'.