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.
***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.***
James Joyce could have used some lessons.
***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.***
A tad more than appreciation is shown by some. The very ones who vehemently and vocally are vexed by the veneration of the saints and Mary are the very ones who publicaly indulge themselves in Bibliolatry.
***I know folks who insure that the Bible is always on top of any pile*** Which insurance company do they use?
***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 ***
I think that some of us have made great strides in quitting the post of mouthpiece of God and are starting to voice opinions and labeling them as such. Our dialogue has not been entirely in vain.
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, [they] are spirit, and [they] are life. - John 6:63