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After rejecting the [[Magisterium]] of the [[Catholic Church]], those Protestant leaders who were discerned by their followers and disciples as capable of leading the individual communities of devout and like-minded believers—the pastors and leading counsellors, the collective chief body of the elders of the congregations, assumed to be guided by the Holy Spirit—because of their manifest intelligence, prudential wisdom, and knowledge of the Bible, used as their principal guidance the ''[[Five Solas]]'', especially 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 alone as their only personal Lord and Savior, not Mary, not the saints, not the angels. For these the Bible itself is the Word of God and worthy of reverence '''''second only to God Himself''''' because it alone is inspired.  

After rejecting the [[Magisterium]] of the [[Catholic Church]], those Protestant leaders who were discerned by their followers and disciples as capable of leading the individual communities of devout and like-minded believers—the pastors and leading counsellors, the collective chief body of the elders of the congregations, assumed to be guided by the Holy Spirit—because of their manifest intelligence, prudential wisdom, and knowledge of the Bible, used as their principal guidance the ''[[Five Solas]]'', especially 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 alone as their only personal Lord and Savior, not Mary, not the saints, not the angels. For these the Bible itself is the Word of God and worthy of reverence '''''second only to God Himself''''' because it alone is inspired.  

In accordance with the technical meaning of the Latin terms of ''dulia, hyperdulia, and latria'', the Pastors and Elders of their churches are regarded as worthy of ''dulia''<ref>The title "Reverend" is itself a title of ''dulia'', respect. In the older terminology of academia a professional theologian was a Divine, whence the title of Doctor of Divinity; a group of theologians and professors of religion were called Divines of the universities and academies. The King James Bible originally titled the last book of the New Testament ''The Revelation of S. John the Divine''.</ref>, the Bible alone of all books and all things on earth is regarded as worthy of ''hyperdulia'', and the "Lord of the spirits of all mankind" and "King of the Day of Judgment", Almighty God Himself, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, is regarded as alone worthy of ''latraea'', the divine worship of adoration due to God alone and no other in heaven or on earth. Those who charge true Bible believers with "bibliolatry" and with exalting the Bible alone as God above any Church are in error. They do not worship the Bible as God, but the God of the Bible.

In accordance with the technical meaning of the Latin terms of ''dulia, hyperdulia, and latria'', the Pastors and Elders of their churches are regarded as worthy of ''dulia''<ref>The title "Reverend" is itself a title of ''dulia'', respect. In the older terminology of academia a professional theologian was a Divine, whence the title of Doctor of Divinity; a group of theologians and professors of religion were called Divines of the universities and academies. The King James Bible originally titled the last book of the New Testament ''The Revelation of S. John the Divine''.<br>''See especially'' [https://bible.org/seriespage/lesson-9-understanding-biblical-authority-titus-215 '''Lesson #9: Understanding Biblical Authority (Titus 2:15)''' article by retired pastor Stephen J. Cole (bible.org)]</ref>, the Bible alone of all books and all things on earth is regarded as worthy of ''hyperdulia'', and the "Lord of the spirits of all mankind" and "King of the Day of Judgment", Almighty God Himself, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, is regarded as alone worthy of ''latraea'', the divine worship of adoration due to God alone and no other in heaven or on earth. Those who charge true Bible believers with "bibliolatry" and with exalting the Bible alone as God above any Church are in error. They do not worship the Bible as God, but the God of the Bible.

All true Christians love the Bible, and deeply reverence it as the divinely inspired Word of God, whether Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran, Baptist, Protestant Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Independent, non-denominational, or individual believer without any particular creed or denominational orientation who believes in God and reads the Bible. Non-Catholic and non-Orthodox Protestant Christians honor and reverence the Bible as the sole rule of faith and practice for the Church as the local Body of Christ, and assert that they worship God alone, by faith alone, through the Spirit alone, according to the Bible alone. See '''''[[Sola spiritu]]'''''.

All true Christians love the Bible, and deeply reverence it as the divinely inspired Word of God, whether Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran, Baptist, Protestant Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Independent, non-denominational, or individual believer without any particular creed or denominational orientation who believes in God and reads the Bible. Non-Catholic and non-Orthodox Protestant Christians honor and reverence the Bible as the sole rule of faith and practice for the Church as the local Body of Christ, and assert that they worship God alone, by faith alone, through the Spirit alone, according to the Bible alone. See '''''[[Sola spiritu]]'''''.