***If you take the words of a man as equal to or greater than Christ’s words, now THAT is idolatry.***
On that I agree. I put no man, or church, above the word of God. Our problem is that I believe that the whole of scripture is God’s word, where you believe that the gospels are somehow greater than the rest.
***Where does it say that all Scripture is of equal use? ***
2 Timothy 3:16-17. Oh, wait, that can’t be true because YOU don’t believe it as the truth.
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This passage says that all Scripture is profitable to use. It most certain does not say that all Scripture is as profitable as all other Scripture.
I give you entire chapters of the words of Christ and you give me cherry picked Pauline verses out of context. You are building your theology on strung together Pauline verses and completely ignoring the central themes and specific instructions of the Gospels. No wonder that we have diverged. Your theology has entirely different emphasis than the Church’s.
We emphasize Christ. You emphasize a man. I suspect that is why Calvin and Luther (but not Zwingli - I wonder why) hold such high esteem. If you would hold post-Resurrection men to have a greater influence on your theology than Jesus Christ, it is no wonder that the Reformers and the Restorers and even street huckster that comes along has access to your minds, your souls and your pocketbooks.
As I travel along through these debates, I really and truly wonder why somebody doesn’t just come out with their truth and create the Church of Paul and eliminate the entire four Gospels and the Catholic Letters and Revelation from the Bible altogether.