What is meant by a "perfect" Bible?

[PDPrice (Paul Price)]

In Korea I saw a very similar sort of thing to protestant evangelicalism in America. Really a carbon copy of it as far as I could tell without speaking the language.

In Japan I didn’t see any Christian organizations.

In Russia the Orthodox churches were comparable to some kind of mash-up between buddhist-type ceremonialism and Roman Catholicism. The main focus is on venerating icons, with a dash of liturgy thrown in at certain times.

[deuteroKJ (Kenneth Turner)]

@swamidass

I’ve understood “according to Scripture” in 1 Corinthians 15:3-7 to mean according to the OT prophecies, not the Gospels per se. Is that the correct understanding?

Yes (also 1 Corinthians one of the earliest letters)

[Mark10.45 (Mark McGowan)]

@AllenWitmerMiller

At times some of the inerrancy debates appear little more than “My brand of inerrancy is far more detailed and emphatic than your brand —so it is obvious that I’m a True Christian™ and you are not.”

Agreed…I should state that this was not my goal, but my point was rather that I see the “perfection” of the bible in the ability to speak to individuals differently. It is more important to @PDPrice that the scripture be considered the object of faith, where I believe it is Jesus that is the object of faith Jude is describing as given “once for all”. Both are relatively correct in that Jesus is the Word and in my mind somewhat interchangeable. So, the bible navigates the difference in opinion “perfectly” and offers truth to each on a personal level without either person being right or wrong.

[AllenWitmerMiller (Semi-Expired Professor & Minister.)]

Yes, Jesus is the foundation. There’s a term which I used to hear a lot more often some years ago. (Perhaps it is just as common today but I’m not involved in the same circles of discussion as in the past.) That term is bibliolatry. Obviously, we don’t worship the Bible. We worship Jesus.

[Mark10.45 (Mark McGowan)]

@AllenWitmerMiller

That term is bibliolatry . Obviously, we don’t worship the Bible. We worship Jesus.

Right, but if you worship the bible long enough, you eventually come to the conclusion that it is all about Jesus, so two paths to the same understanding. There is room to be gracious. I like the term though, gonna stick it in my tool box.

[Ashwin_s]

@r_speir

also inspired this:

Now in the Garden, God selected primate Adam and primate Eve from a horde of beasts who had long since branched from the great apes and bestowed on them his image

…is a heinous spiritual act. It is to presume on the Spirit of God and the holy Text in a manner unparalleled in the history of the Church.

No one considers the paragraph you cited as inspired in the same way the biblical text is.
This applies to the writings of AIG, Clavin, Luther etc.

[r_speir]

@Ashwin_s

No one considers the paragraph you cited as inspired in the same way the biblical text is.

And you think I am calling it inspired? God forbid. You are confused.

[PDPrice (Paul Price)]

@AllenWitmerMiller

Obviously, we don’t worship the Bible. We worship Jesus.

Nobody worships the Bible that I’m aware of. Believing the Bible is not bibliolatry. Jesus is the same God who inspired the text of the Bible, so believing the Bible in its entirety is an act of worship towards Jesus in itself.

[r_speir]

@AllenWitmerMiller

Obviously, we don’t worship the Bible. We worship Jesus.

The Word and the Name are synonymous. If you malign God’s Word, you malign his Name. Look at Psalm 138

For You have magnified Your word above all Your name. Psalm 138