Why are biblicists so unbiblical?
The favorite idol of so-called conservative Christians is the Bible. The religion of this idol is called Biblicism. Biblicists can be recognized by their use of phrases such as "the Bible says" or "the Bible teaches". But of course, the Bible doesn't speak or teach anything - God does. Biblicists tend to transfer properties of God and Christ to the Bible. The Bible is said to be the Word of God, holy, inerrant, infallible, and so on. More sophisticated biblicists acknowledge that though the Bible is written by human beings, it is also the Word of God in the same way that Jesus is fully human and fully divine - which is of course just transferring the teachings on the two natures of Christ to the Bible. But what does the Bible say?