Jesus is the Word of God. It's a common misconception
I think the word of God is the word of God, or do you deny the innerency of scripture?
Luk 4:4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
Luk 8:11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Luk 8:21 And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.
Act 4:31 And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
Without the word of God you can not know the Word of God in any meaningful way.If it makes you feel good to think that there is no need or command to read the scriptures go ahead , but know that the god you kneel before might just not be the God of Scripture.
So without a Bible, you could not meaningfully know God? That's an interesting idea. What about all of the illiterate people throughout history that had neither the ability nor the leisure time to read Scripture? They never knew the Word of God, Jesus?
Ever since the printing press people have gotten funny ideas about how God is experienced and how good they are at knowing all that God wants us to know.
If it makes you feel good to think that there is no need or command to read the scriptures go ahead
Try not putting words in my mouth, OK?
Pointing out your confusion between the Bible and the Word of God is not to say there is no need to study Scripture. Only that one can recognize that God is experienced through other means than only reading.
When you remove Church and Sacrament and history from your beliefs, it is little surprise that you fixate on Scripture as all. I mean, what else do you have left?
SD
Not a single one of the quotes you offered says that the Holy Bible consisting of the books of the Old (whichever version) and New Testaments is the "Word of God" as the phrase is used in these quotes. Not one.<p.I don't think there is any dispute about whether the Word of God is important. The dispute was whether the Bibles was fittingly called "the Word of God". It seems to me that to addce these quotes in this argument is to appeal to a tradition about their interpretation.