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The term '''bibliolatry''' is from the Greek '''βιβλίον''' ''biblion'', "a book", and '''λάτρία''' ''latreia'', "worship".

The term '''bibliolatry''' is from the Greek '''βιβλίον''' ''biblion'', "a book", and '''λάτρία''' ''latreia'', "worship".

Bible believers do not worship the Bible, but the '''[[God]]''' of the Bible, who has disclosed in its pages his divine nature, and will, and love for every human soul. The Bible itself is supremely reverenced (''hyperdulia'') with genuine honor and respect by them as the highest revelation of God to man after the ascension of Jesus to heaven and the death of the last of the Apostles of the Lord, because it alone has all of the supernatural authority of the public divine revelation of God, and contains all that is necessary for the man of God:{{cquote|All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.<br>—2 Timothy 3:16.}}They believe that once the Bible was complete, from Genesis to Revelation, and the Bible was available to be placed in the hands of common Christians to finally read for themselves personally what it says, and be guided by its divine and holy counsel, the [[Institution|institutional]] [[Hierarchy|hierarchical]] Church was no longer necessary to pastorally guide the children and disciples of God with any authority outside of the Bible alone.  

Bible believers assert that they do not worship the Bible, but the '''[[God]]''' of the Bible, who has disclosed in its pages his divine nature, and will, and love for every human soul. The Bible itself is supremely reverenced (''hyperdulia'') with genuine honor and respect by them as the highest revelation of God to man after the ascension of Jesus to heaven and the death of the last of the Apostles of the Lord, because it alone has all of the supernatural authority of the public divine revelation of God, and contains all that is necessary for the man of God:{{cquote|All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.<br>—2 Timothy 3:16.}}They believe that once the Bible was complete, from Genesis to Revelation, and the Bible was available to be placed in the hands of common Christians to finally read for themselves personally what it says, and be guided by its divine and holy counsel, the [[Institution|institutional]] [[Hierarchy|hierarchical]] Church was no longer necessary to pastorally guide the children and disciples of God with any authority outside of the Bible alone.  

Those who were discerned as capable of leading the individual communities of devout and like-minded believers, pastors and leading counsellors—the collective chief body of the elders of the congregations, guided by the Holy Spirit—because of their manifest intelligence, prudential wisdom, and knowledge of the Bible, used as guidance the principle of ''sola scriptura'', the Bible alone, to guide them in guiding souls to [[salvation]] by faith alone in the one true God and in Jesus Christ as their only personal Lord and Savior. For these the Bible itself is the Word of God and worthy of reverence '''''second only to God Himself'''''.  

Those who were discerned as capable of leading the individual communities of devout and like-minded believers, pastors and leading counsellors—the collective chief body of the elders of the congregations, guided by the Holy Spirit—because of their manifest intelligence, prudential wisdom, and knowledge of the Bible, used as guidance the principle of ''sola scriptura'', the Bible alone, to guide them in guiding souls to [[salvation]] by faith alone in the one true God and in Jesus Christ as their only personal Lord and Savior. For these the Bible itself is the Word of God and worthy of reverence '''''second only to God Himself'''''.