Many believers seem to equate the two.
It’s called bibliolatry because the Bible literally becomes an idol - an object with magical properties. To go beyond it’s four corners is forbidden, even if you have to live in a constant state of cognitive dissonance where you must pretend every discipline of science or history is wrong (in which case God is the Great Deceiver, but I’ll let it go). This idol must be consulted over and over and over as it “speaks” to you and “guides” you on every issue of life like a cosmic ouija board. Mark Twain joked that “faith is believing things you know ain’t so,” a pretty good description of bibliolatry. Other scriptures that say pretty much exactly the same things, often in more profound terms, are “heathen” and even “demonic” because they lack the magical properties of this idol; the same concepts and sometimes even the same words are pagan idols. The Bible contains profound spiritual truth, but lots of nonsense as well (IMHO, of course).
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I’m on a roll after two cups of coffee at 4:30 AM: It seemingly never occurs to those for whom the Bible is an idol that Sola Scriptura has produced thousands of different - often very different - understandings and denominations. Literally millions of people who think they are worshipping the same idol are seeing very different things.
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It is too common to see Christians use the Bible as a crystal ball, giving them a thumbs up have pizza for dinner- or not.
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