> It's literally the word of God.
What does Holy Scripture says is the Word? John 1 says In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God... and the Word became flesh. It doesn't say the Word, which became flesh, has then become written. The written word is not God, which would be a Bibliolotry of which I find much of Protestantism guilty. It is holy, and it is God's word—yes, He is the ultimate Author—but I would be careful to say it is not The Word, especially as it says The Word is something other than itself.
I worship God—the Father, the Son Who is the Word of God, and the Holy Spirit—not the written word of God. I believe in the written word of God, but I know it is not God.
To study the scriptures is good and holy, but it is not what the whole of the Christian faith is about. That would veer into Bibliolotry.
> Vatican I explicitly condemns what you're trying to say. The Church is a witness to something that already existed, nothing more.
The Church is the "pillar and foundation of truth" as the Scriptures say. It is witness and custodian of Holy Tradition. That Holy Tradition is originally oral and over the lives of the Apostles became also written. That written Tradition is Holy Scripture. The Church needed God's inspiration and authority to do this. The Church predates the written and compiled Bible, but not Holy Tradition. The Church is founded by Christ upon the Apostles in His Holy Tradition.
Cool, thanks for stating the corporate position that literally everyone has already heard. I could have done something infinitely more useful with my time, like watch the grass grow, or shoot myself in both eyes with a bb gun, but I read this instead.
We're done, you're not a serious person.
funny you take that first passage as wholly relating to the bible, i take it as the birth of conciousness, maybe a conciousness
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