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Why Biblicism is bad

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The video helps with something I have been thinking about for a while related to some people in my life. It seems to me that there are those who can be so narrowly focused and obsessed on the Bible as seen through their own lens that sometimes it seems to me that it is the Bible itself that they worship.
 
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Thanks for sharing. The Australian Anglican perspective is a case in point. There has been a movement that confounds the Incarnate Word (logos) with the Written Word (graphos) and seems to value the latter over the former. I, and others, have tended to label this as Bibliotry; however, in this sense, Biblicism also would pass muster. To reject Biblical Criticism is to treat the Bible in the same light as the Islamic Faith treats the Quran.

Those who penned the 39 Articles may have wanted to treat scripture more seriously; however, there were clearly some boundaries.

20. Of the Authority of the Church.​

The Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith: And yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God’s Word written, neither may it so expound one place of Scripture, that it be repugnant to another. Wherefore, although the Church be a witness and a keeper of holy Writ, yet, as it ought not to decree any thing against the same, so besides the same ought it not to enforce any thing to be believed for necessity of Salvation.
 
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My favourite part is at 4:36...we do not need just the Bible...we need the Bible with the Holy Spirit guiding us to understand it.

I was told (very young) to look out for s few adult Christians that I wished to be like, and to tell them when I was reading the Bible so that they could pray for me as I did. That is when I was first reading it, they did not have to be praying at precisely the exact time that I was reading, just that I did have the Lord's help on my way through it.
 
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