daily word - Bible

Do you consider yourself to be legalistic? How do you treat the Bible? Do you see it as a law book that can be parsed out line upon line and precept upon precept? Can it be divided and selected by chapter and verse? You know people who do this. Do you think that they are the best at understanding and living the message of scripture or do they cherry pick the Bible in a way that serves their own purposes? Do they see the Bible as a sword to use against others? How successful would you expect to be in turning a book written by mystics into a book of the law? Would you want to?