The Bible Is Secondary

[votivesoul]

Lay the bible down.

No.

Development a relationship with God.

I have and continue to do so.

The bible will become less and less important...

Not so.

Could it be that the most egregious acts within Christianity occurred because of the bible?

Nope. The most egregious acts within Christianity are due to the lusts of the flesh, for in them we war, kill, desire, and cannot obtain because we take without asking, or if we do ask permission, we cannot obtain, because the reason we ask is usually corrupted, sick, and twisted, but I wouldn't have known that had James not written so in his general epistle:

James 4:1-5,

1. From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
2. Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
3. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
4. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
5. Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

The Bible, according to you, is just paper and ink. It does nothing of itself.