Re: Why even quote ANY scripture?
Wow... You failed to understand the the words are God-breathed, meaning it has His Spirit in it. If we follow Christ then we are His Body, therefore Christ. So was each one of the apostles also God, since they were His "Body"?
I admit the idea is a bit "abstract," but such is our God, beyond human understanding. The same reason why He gave us the Bible so that we may understand Him. One cannot dismiss His Word, and claim to be "of Christ." This idea is contradictory.
Do not twist the scriptures. You have been warned. The rest is between you and God. Tell me what the scripture in the my previous post means to you? What does it say about scripture?
What about the Scripture quoted below?
-2 Timothy 3:16-17 (New King James Version)
16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
And where are His words recorded if not the Bible?
-John 6:63 (New King James Version)
63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
If this spirit you follow does not coincide with Scripture, yet the Holy Spirit resides in Scripture, then what spirit are you following? Not God's Spirit, that's for sure.