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I understand that there are people that deify the Bible. I believe it's because it's their only link with God. Therefore, the Bible takes on super natural characteristics to them. When God speaks, His words are perfect. Man however, is not. And therefore, the things man writes are prone to our human failings.

The Bible is not God, therefore no one worships it as God. However, it IS the WORD of God and we are commanded to heed His word, remember it, meditate upon in, teach it to our children and honor it. Many, many times in Scripture God commands His prophets to WRITE down the words He gave to them so that there would be no denial of them, confusion over what He spoke and that they would be preserved for all time. Heaven and earth will pass away, the word of God will NEVER pass away. Here are a few of those times where Almighty God commanded that His words be WRITTEN:

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever(Isa. 30:8)

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, Thus speaketh the Lord God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book. (Jeremiah 30:1,2)

Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day. (Jer. 36:2)

And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them. (Ezek. 43:11)

And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. (Hab. 2:2)

The Holy Bible has been given to us BY God so that we may have a "rule of faith" by which to know truth from error. You disparage those you claim make too much of the Bible. I think your religion's problem is you make too little of it.

"The Bible is not God, therefore no one worships it as God. However, it IS the WORD of God and we are commanded to heed His word, remember it, meditate upon in, teach it to our children and honor it. Many, many times in Scripture God commands His prophets to WRITE down the words He gave to them so that there would be no denial of them, confusion over what He spoke and that they would be preserved for all time. Heaven and earth will pass away, the word of God will NEVER pass away. Here are a few of those times where Almighty God commanded that His words be WRITTEN:"

And for the most part I agree with what you're saying. However, no where in any writing in the Bible does it say there will be a "Bible" and it will be the only scripture on the planet.

That's not in there.

But, warnings to people who limit the power of God are in there.

Amos 3:7. There was no prophets present when the books of the Bible were chosen. That's a big red flag.

John 10:16
16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

Jesus always referred to His people as Sheep and Himself as the Shepherd. So, when He left the Apostles after His resurrection, He made it clear He was going to go teach to other people on the earth. Not these sheep, but other sheep. Not these people, but other people.

It's totally logical that God had people and prophets all over the world at some time or other. He wants to save all people. Not just the few that were in the middle east.

It's completely logical to assume then if God spoke to people all over the world they would have His words to them, and that would be scripture too.

I stand ready to receive any word God sends to me.