What would you do, if you had no Bible, and you met a stranger. You would use your memory of what you learned from reading the word, which is understandable.
No the Bible does not make it Christianity, Christ does, and without Him it would be Judaism. The Bible is not God, the Bible tells His story. John said that there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.
So does the fact that all of the things Christ did was not all written down make God incomplete if the Bible is God? No, because the Bible is not God. I agree it is the best tool we have available to us, but there could come a time when we as Christians do not have it. If so then how miserable we would be if we cannot reach the lost without it?
Think of a scenario that would put you in a place without the Bible, and you could not give it or read from it to reach others.
Are you saying you could not save that individual? God is the one who said, “I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts”, not me.
Either he can reach the lost without the Bible, or he cannot, and we all know the truth. God does not need the Bible to reach us. We need it to understand Him. remember, He can and did grow the church without the Bible.
But I do understand you take, and that was my first take until i thought it through.
Hey editor, my friend is a good Christian. However, as a professor of apologetics, he finds himself doing these sort of mental gymnastics to sharpen his ability to fight the good fight and to reach the Dawkins of the world. Plus he is thinking of writing another book.
Orthodoxy without orthopraxy equals Pharisaism.