Microsoft Word - ChristianityNotReligionBkMSS.doc

Men being men (natural systematizers, categorizers, formulizers, moralizers and theologizers) took the enscribed law and made it ...

Law and were worshipping the Book, the Law, the Torah, rather than God. The stage was set for the showdown confrontation between ...

Me; and you are unwilling to come to Me, that you may have life" (John 5:38-40). The scribal Pharisees "searched the scriptures, ...

precise doctrinal definition, in sentential semantics, in theological treatises. Jesus did not write anything as far as we know, ...

name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you" (John 14:23-26). It is not the Bible t ...

itself would not contain the books which were written" (John 21:25). The world could not contain the books if man even attempted ...

Paul had to correct the Galatians and the Corinthians when they were misinformed by Judaizing legalists, propagating book-religi ...

taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead. And I was ...

Christians assemble together to do Bible study. It is sort of a "Bible Information Clinic" where one teacher gets up to "throw t ...

Jesus said, "Upon this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not overpower it" (Matthew 16:18). God's preser ...

Instead of the living gospel there was dead ideology. Instead of freedom there was bondage. Yet, like the Pharisees, we have des ...

etc. All branches of Protestantism down through the centuries have prided themselves on being "the people of the Book" or "the r ...

something visible instead of invisible, tangible instead of intangible, physical instead of spiritual, concrete instead of abstr ...

presence of His Holy Son, Jesus Christ in us. But the book itself is not intrinsically holy. We need to make sure we understand ...

Bible knowledge, creates arrogance, pride, hypocrisy and the like. Book-religion creates a mechanistic system, a belief- system ...

encyclopedic text that gives every answer to every question on every subject in the universe. This is not the purpose of the Bib ...

(John 20:31). The purpose of the Scriptures is to lead one to receive the life that is in Christ Jesus. The apostle Paul reminds ...

reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work." (II ...

eventually of the canonized collection of what we know as the sixty-six books of the Bible, the Scriptures. Paul is indicating t ...

does this not create a duplicated ambiguity of terminology? (Yes, I know that I am treading on the sacred ground of bibliolatry, ...