“You miss the fact that he had three citations there - only one of which was actual scripture?”
Let’s see: “Spiritual things are spiritually discerned.”
From the verse he directly quoted right after this first phrase:
1Co 2:14 ... they are spiritually discerned.
And from the verse that precedes it:
1Co 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
And then he writes: “The natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
Which is a direct quote of the 14th verse.
So looks like he has two quotations of scripture, one partial, one in full, and the third one an explanation of what the two verses teach.
FYI, you said verse 14 was NOT scripture:
“Not scripture — Also not scripture”
Seems to me you’re just a stranger to scripture. LOL
“So looks like he has two quotations of scripture, one partial, one in full, and the third one an explanation of what the two verses teach.”
There’s only one there. Dr. E. Mixing scripture with not scripture is generally frowned upon unless you’re protestant.
Good to have you back again.