You believe, how do you feel about what the Holy Ghost teaches, does that have to comply with what the world believes in order for it to be so?
I humbly submit to be taught from on high by the power of the Holy Ghost!
“You believe, how do you feel about what the Holy Ghost teaches, does that have to comply with what the world believes in order for it to be so?
“I humbly submit to be taught from on high by the power of the Holy Ghost!”
The Bible IS the Holy Spirit’s Book. God could have chosen to put his thoughts and desires and will into your mind without using a Book at at all. But He uses a Book. Therefore the words must have specific meaning, or it is of no value. If ten people are in a room, and each one says that the Holy spirit taught him about John 5:24 (just for example), and each one spues a different message, then how can I know which one is truly the Holy Spirit’s message? Or rather, can I accept the specific meaning of the words in the text, know that THOSE ARE the Holy Spirit’s words, and judge the words of the ten in the room by those words in print.
I choose the above latter, and still recognize that once the SPECIFIC doctrine is understood from the text, the Holy Spirit also may yield side applications to some or all of the ten in the room. The side applications can not contradict or violate the specific words or doctrine of the text.
Warning: It is also possible for Satan to plant thoughts in the mind.