Hi Donna Skinner,
 
In reply to your post called "Love" at http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/oct2004/donnas102-2.htm loving others as ourselves would fulfill the second commandment that the Lord Jesus gave us in Matthew 22:39 in which he says, "Thou shalt love they neighbor as thyself."  However, even if all of us Christians did love everyone as ourselves, we would still need the Bible and the commandments because not everyone in the world is saved nor do they have faith in the Lord Jesus who died on the cross for their sins.  The apostle Paul tells us in Romans 10:17, "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."  Also according to John 6:63, our Lord Jesus also said, "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words I speak to you, they are spirit, and they are life." The words of our Lord give life and change hearts.  Also in order to fulfill the Lord's commission of "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:..."(Matt.28:19-20a), we do need the word of God, the Bible, to do so.  The word of God still needs to be preached to the unsaved of the world.
 
And not all Christians are yet perfect. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 tells us, "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works."
 
So until everyone is saved that is written in the Lamb's Book of Life, and everyone saved reach a level of spiritual maturity where everyone loves their neighbors as themselves and all the word of God is written on everyone's heart and they are perfect, we will need the Bible.  And even after that, I kind of think that the Bible, the word of God, will still be around because I honestly can't seeing the Lord having the word of God destroyed since all scripture was given by inspiration of God. <grin>  It would be like you or me or someone else writing a poem or a book, and the only way that we would destroy something we created is if we absolutely hated what we wrote, and I know the Lord doesn't hate what he inspired in the scriptures. <grin> So I think the Bible will be around even after the Lord Jesus' 1000 year reign on earth.
 
God bless,
Donna