every man must admit the right of the higher mysteries to rule his life in the
last resort but some things such as the language of Scripture and how would we
leave the mysteries rather too mysterious for immediate application
well some like the Catholic theory of social Authority and deliberately
clarified so that they can be applied the idolatry of the sacred writings
actually paved the way for the idolatry of all writing.
Without superstition in kissing rings and kissing the Bible
there's now even more superstition in consulting the dictionary too many
people think that anything that has got itself printed has somehow passed an
examination and received a diploma as somehow shown itself to be true
he says they'll believe encyclopedia against an eyewitness they'll believe a
newspaper against the naked eye St Thomas and civil disobedience is
rational because because law is an ordinance of Reason past with a common
good what is truth was
Pontius Pilate the first theologian /OT/NT Bible the greatest book in all the world more influential more inspiring
more enigmatic than any other collection of printed pages it's a book that we
cannot do without but it's also a dangerous book because we cannot risk
misunderstanding it did and even the ones who do know how to recite scripture chapter and verse miss
one very important point that the Bible is a document of the Catholic Church NT/KJB
English literature and not only
is English literature completely filled with biblical references but one of the
greatest works of English literature is the Bible that is the translation of the
bible during the reign of King James the first published the dawn of the 17th
century around the COLONIAL explanation for a WASP mindset that took cast for literary society
the English Bible the big bones of English
literature alagoricaly then literally being Gods commercial attorney
but it is a translation and a translation that has more than a few
flaws in it there's no question that 16th century english sounds more
dignified than modern English a bound copy of the King James
Version fell from heaven exactly as the golden plates of the book of mormon fell
out of the sky on the other hand there are those who attack the Bible I am attending too its misconduct .
but will be defending something good in my undertaking and it's not hard to
figure out where my sympathies lie in this matter. I would lean
towards neither of these two kinds of Biblical extremists when it comes to the bible
the Bible smashers and the Bible worshippers
as with most extremist they are remarkably alike even though they seem
to be opposites they missed the point in two different directions but they are
wrong for the same reason they are both guilty of idolatry one extreme regards
the Bible as an Idol to be worshipped and the other as an idol to be destroyed
what is idolatry the preference for the incidental?
good over the eternal good which it symbolizes our
elementary underlying mathematical and moral heresy that the part is greater than the whole or a cast is named

Separating any Bible from your church and then make the Bible more important than
the church the bible is not greater then Christ .So we never conceded too a separation of church and state the book has.