No, the Bible is a book. Christ is God made man, and with the Father and the Spirit, the living God. Interesting that Zwingli placed a Bible on the altar, or table, as we have from time to time, a tabernacle. The Jews do something similar in synagogues. A reformer who did not believe in the Real Presence instead made a book as an object of worship. Of course, being a rationalist, he might call it a symbol. No wonder Luther was perflexed. That same book said, “is”.
That is your answer to this?
The Bible is the Word, Jesus is the Word made flesh. The Holy Spirit guides us as we totally immerse ourselves in the Bible so it becomes clear to us.I agree with your next sentence:
Christ is God made man, and with the Father and the Spirit, the living God.The Bible is much more than just a book. It is The Word:
The Word made flesh.And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.John 1
King James Version (KJV)
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
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Jesus is the word.
Cross referrencing to This Post, here are some scriptures from it:
Thank you Alamo-Girl for posting those scriptures.
The words of the LORD [are] pure words: [as] silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. – Psalms 12:6-7 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper [in the thing] whereto I sent it. - Isaiah 55:11
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some [others], epistles of commendation to you, or [letters] of commendation from you?
Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: [Forasmuch as ye are] manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. - 2 Cor 3:1-3