People ask me if I believe our Christian scriptures are inspired, with the implied question being if I believe they are inerrant, as if that's what it means to be inspired.
News Flash for Fundamentalists and Evangelicals: It Doesn't Mean That
The scriptures bear witness to humans being all of these:
Inspired.
God-breathed.
Created in the image and likeness of God.
Knit together intricately by God Himself in our mothers womb, fearfully and wonderfully made.
Profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, and righteous instruction.
Vessels/temples containing the very Presence of God.
Hearts said to have His Laws written on them.
Joined/United with Christ in His death, burial, resurrection and ascension.
Seated with Christ in the heavenly places
At the Father's right hand in the place of authority.
Holy, blameless, chosen in love before the foundation of the world.
Co-laborers with God.
Part of Christ's Body on the earth.
Now, given this list, Paul is so bold as to refer to believers as "Living Epistles."
Living scripture, in other words. Wow!!!!
Yet, not a SINGLE person I know would ever look at this list above and claim that humans are inerrant, infallible, and have the exact same authority as Christ Himself.
That would be... blasphemy.
But... that's exactly how we describe what we know today as "scripture."
The Protestant reaction to the Catholics assigning such high authority to the Pope and the church structure... was to assign the same high authority to a book.
Both are wrong.
Both can be deadly.
Inspired? Most definitely.
Inerrant? Most definitely not.
Both the inspired church and the God-breathed scriptures are ONLY meant to lead us, through revelation from the Spirit, to the inerrant, infallible, authoritative Word of God - the Logos/Logic manifested in time and space for us to see True Love Expressed - Jesus Christ alone.
Bibliolatry is nearly impossible to detect, because it masks as Great Respect.
"You search so diligently for eternal life in a book, but you refuse to come to Me, the source and sustenance of All Life." - Jesus
"In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God." - John
Don't settle for ANYTHING less than Christ Himself as the object of your search, the destination your heart knows as it's True Home.
Originally from my friend Mo Thomas
