The Bible an Idol? How serious can one be?

One of the dangers of over-realized bibliology is biblio-idolatry that makes the text of Scripture into a divine being and/or ascribes it divine features.

The Bible is a book-of-books written by various individuals under the influence of the Holy Spirit. It wasn't dictated by God.

The Bible isn't God. Though Jesus is the Word of God, the logos tou theou, the Bible is not Jesus. We must be careful in how we approach the text of Scripture. Too often in debates and discussions (particularly in my SBC groups) the Bible gets elevated to this divine status where it is viewed as a fourth member of the Trinity.

One of the difficulties with some people, who do this, is that they forget that while the Bible our trustworthy, inspired guide that contains revelation of God to mankind...our intepretations are not always trustworthy and inspired. Too often I've been rebuked for calling into question someone's (poor) interpretation by a statement that asserts their interpretation of the Bible is as inspired as the Bible by making the two synonymous. The two are not.

The Bible can, like so much else in this world, become an idol if we forget to approach it with humility and honesty.

 

think extremes in this area are part of the problem!

some would hold to either a Limited inerrancy view, Bible not fully without errors, or else NOT sole final authority all things spiritual, or else we have "more revelations" to add to it!

Other hand, we at times make the bible equal to being God in printed form!
ALL of the scriptures are revelation inspired by god, But JUST gives to us partially Mind of God, what we know, are NOT fullness of God to us in book form