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 ==The Bible as an idol==
-William Branham stated that the Bible was "God in print form. You're no more than your word. God is no more than His Word.[14]
+William Branham stated that the Bible was "God in print form. You're no more than your word. God is no more than His Word.<ref>William Branham, 64-0318 - Sir, We Would See Jesus, para. 16</ref>.  He also referred to it as "the dripping, Bloody Word... the Word of God bleeding Blood."<ref>William Branham, 65-1205 - Things That Are To Be, para. 62</ref>
-Because, you have to stand and be married to a perfect Son of God, and you must be a perfect Bride. So how can you do it through anything else but the perfect Word of God, which is, "The Waters of separation, that washes us from our sins"? Amen. That's right. The Blood of Jesus Christ, think of It, the dripping, Bloody Word. Amen. The Blood, the—the Word of God bleeding Blood, to wash the Bride in. Amen. Yes, sir. She stands perfect, virgin, unadulterated. She never sinned, in the first place. Amen. She was trapped into it. See?[15]
-But that is "bibliolatry", literally, making the Bible an idol. Many argue that bibliolatry takes place whenever faith in the Bible is placed over faith in Christ.<ref>Gregory A. Boyd and Paul R. Eddy, Across the Spectrum: Understanding Issues in Evangelical Theology, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009), 328.</ref>
+But this is an incorrect view of the Bible.  What does the Bible say about itself?
+:1 Tim. 3:16-17 - ''All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God p may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.''<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), 2 Ti 3:16–17.
+:1 Cor. 2:13 - ''This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), 1 Co 2:13.</ref>
+:Rom 15:4 - ''For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ro 15:4.</ref>
+"Bibliolatry", literally means making the Bible an idol. Many argue that bibliolatry takes place whenever faith in the Bible is placed over faith in Christ.<ref>Gregory A. Boyd and Paul R. Eddy, Across the Spectrum: Understanding Issues in Evangelical Theology, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009), 328.</ref>
 Charles Spurgeon acknowledged this when he said:
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 We may make the house of God an idol temple. We may make the Bible itself a mere idol. We may dispossess the heart of love by almost welcoming the spirit of fear.<ref>Joseph Parker, The People’s Bible: Discourses upon Holy Scripture, Joshua–Judges 5, vol. V (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, Publishers, 1887), 188.</ref>  And the message of William Branham is filled with fear.
+William Branham's view of the Bible was not correct.  When the Bible says in John 1:1 that "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Jn 1:1.</ref>," it is not speaking that the Bible was in the beginning.
+You cannot limit God to what he has revealed to us about himself through the Bible.
+The Bible did not bleed for me.  Jesus did.  The Bible is not "God in print" but it is the revelation to me of who Jesus is.
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