No problem on the tone. When escalated, very few things are helped in a discussion of ideas. Follow-up question. What lens do you use to discern whether the message is from the Holy Spirit or from another spirit?
Prayer and the bible ;-)
I see the bible as HIGHLY useful in a general way (among others). As one really immerses themself in it, they can get a strong “feel” for the personality of God.
Where this comes in handy is i interpretting “confusing” scripture. Often what is confusing is someone trying to teach you false doctrine that needs to twist the meaning of some plain scripture. You know, like ‘The wages of sin is death”, where “death” doesn’t really mean death, and then they start preaching some myth about all the lost will suffer in a fire for all eternity.
When You know the bible, you understand the personality of God and know that that is hogwash.