Whatever the reason, his witness left me feeling uneasy. Once I realized that Francis Schaeffer was testifying to his faith in the Bible in a manner that paralleled the way believers throughout the centuries have testified about accepting Jesus, I became strongly convicted that the Bible was being elevated to a place that properly belongs only to Christ. It wasn't long before I began to see other signs that the Bible was receiving the kind of adulation that is properly attributed to deity. Fundamentalists speak of the Bible with the same words that they have used to describe Jesus. The Bible calls Jesus perfect.
Fundamentalists call the Bible perfect.
The cumulative effect of all this is to elevate the Bible to the point that faith in the Bible is equivalent to or, at least, prerequisite to faith in Jesus. Whenever faith in the Bible is required before Jesus can be trusted, the Bible becomes an idol. God's creation is being elevated above the Creator. Scripture, rather than Christ, becomes the mediator between God and man. I doubt that any of them intend to make the Bible an idol.