With some people, it's all a game - preset like a trap for anyone who attempts to answer presuming a question is asked honestly. It seldom is. Instead, it only serves as a chance to belittle, mock and insult an opponent all so the challenger can feel smug in his/her superiority. Hardly an attitude a Christian should have especially on a website Religion Forum where anyone can read the exchange.
Challenging someone to find a Bible verse that uses the word "Bible", for example, is this kind of trap. Yes, you posted verses that used the word biblios (the Greek for book/books) and, yes, it IS used referring to the sacred Scriptures IN the Scriptures. But...that's not, presumably, what is asked for. You MUST show a passage IN the Bible that specifically says "Bible", else you are wrong. Perhaps certain people don't deserve an answer, since past experience shows they never wanted one in the first place? Having fun yet???
Wow. What a curious thing to write, considering what some people have written on this thread. When the other side does it, it's a "trap" and a "game".
If it doesn't say what they think it should say, how they think it should have been said, they seem to feel they are then free to dismiss anything anyone brings to the table.
If it doesn't say what they think it should say, how they think it should have been said, they seem to feel they are then free to dismiss anything anyone brings to the table.
I have to remind myself daily that it is not they who will be reached by the truth we show from scripture. The people who will be reached by the words from scripture will be those whose eyes have been opened by God and who He is calling to be His. If those who ask those "trick" questions feel "smug and superior" we can only say with sadness "they have their reward".