[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by Juan

What would our soul benefit from elevating the bible to the level which is only fitted to the Lord God? Would God be delighted with us if we treat the bible as if it were God?
....How we believe and trust God matters most of all to Him rather than believing the bible to be inerrant or not which is just a waste of time and effort on our part.

Juan,
First of all WELCOME TO THE FORUM! Please feel free to give us a short testimony when you get a chance.

The points you have made here are very well reasoned and to be well taken, however, in a sense, and in so many words, the Bible itself seems to tell us to treat it as if it were God Himself, or at the very least it is divine. Now when I say divine I don't mean simply "divinely inspired" - I mean divine as to it's very nature. I'll let the Bible itself speak to this: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God...And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth."(John 1:1,14)Please note that it does not say that "flesh became the Word" but rather "the Word became flesh". It was the Word that is ETERNAL, preexisting, and therefore not merely a "thought" or "inspiration". Also we see in Revelation that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was called the Word: "and his name is The Word of God" (Rev. 19:13)

The Bible does not have to agree with or confirm in any way science or scientific observations or discoveries, for we are only observing and discovering the very things that God himself created and the very "laws" that he himself established. Time and space are at his command. He can even contradict any established law if he so chooses (cf: parting of the Red Sea, making the Sun stand still, etc.)
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