We have to be more than biblical.
The Pharisees were biblical.
But, Jesus criticized them for obsessively following what was written and completely missing the point.
“You must be born again,” Jesus said.
This must happen before we can unlock Scripture and know the Word at all.
We must be born again in order to apply Scripture properly, that results in life.
Just being biblical results in death.
ANYTHING we do in the flesh (according to our own thinking –without the Spirit who gives us the heart and mind of God) is death, including churchy / religious activities.
Jesus is the cipher.
He is the correct interpretation of Scripture. And, we must be born again in order to see it.
We have to be more than biblical.
Without the being born again, what we think and say about the Bible will be wrong as hell.
Believe Jesus.
‘Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!’
– Matthew 23:24
‘Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.
Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.’
– Matthew 5:17-20
‘And the Father Himself, who sent Me, has testified of Me.
You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form.
But you do not have His word abiding in you, because whom He sent, Him you do not believe.
You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.’
– John 5:37-39
‘Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”
Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?”
Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things?
Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness.
If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven.
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. ‘
– John 3:3-16
The Bible doesn’t save you. Jesus does.