It’s your side that regularly mixes up the Word of God with the word of God. Jesus versus Scripture.
If you make them equivalent, then you are in effect worshiping the Bible.
Slippery rubber dictionaries have no influence on the truth of my beliefs.
Jesus IS The Living Word.
There is a level of congrunce that The Living Word has wth the ink on wood pulp.
However, our capacity to plumb the depths of the ink on wood pulp is not likely to be greatly better than our capacity to—in this time/space dimension—or any other, really—plumb the depths of The Living Word walking hand in hand with us tangibly or otherwise.
There is a sense—a lot of senses, probably—in which the set of stimuli that constitute the ink on wood pulp are The Living Word . . . The overlap is fairly wholesale . . . but far from identical.
And, given our incapacities to even perceive, much less comprehend the totality of the ink on wood pulp &/or The Living Word Christ Jesus . . . it’s rather silly obsfucation or . . . lack of awareness . . . or . . . deliberate dodgey manipulation of the facts to insist that appreciation for various essences of The Living Word ‘residing’ in the ink on wood pulp constitutes idolatry.
I have observed idolatry of the ink on onion skin. Participated in it in my youth. Observed it in others. And, I have loved ones who deliberately stack things on Bibles as a testimony against such . . . as I know folks who insure that the Bible is always on top of any pile—not as reverence for the ink on onion skin per se—but as reverence for The Author.
But, hey, if the RC edifice wishes to construe the fact that Prottys consider The Living Word to have great overlap with the ink on onion skin in some significant respects, ways, factors . . . if the RC edifice wishes to consider that awareness as worship . . . they MIGHT only need to be concerned with God’s perspective . . . as He judges them by the standard they judge with . . . especially vis a vis the magicsterical, Maryolatry etc.
My sense is that God sees enormous difference in respect for The Author and egregiously over the line veneration etc. of Mary, the RC edifice, the magicsterical . . . etc.
And when you bow to Mary and the saints, you make them gods.