***Let me get this straight: what exactly did you believe when you started reading the Bible?
What if you started reading the Book of Mormon instead of the Bible? Would you have ended up joining a Mormon assembly? If not, why not?
The only way you could tell if something was genuine or not is for you to know what is scripture and what is not. Where would that knowledge come from, and how did reading the Bible add to such a powerful knowledge? ***
What does the Bible have to do with Reformed Salvation? If the Holy Spirit drops on one like a leopard from the trees and engulfs one’s soul, giving all required knowledge, what is the Bible for? Does it merely reinforce the indwelling knowledge? If so, then the Reformed Holy Spirit is obviously too weak to indwell the knowledge, yes?
That doesn’t sound quite as cut and dried as many Reformed would have us believe.
It gives them something to do (preach to the reprobate as if that will save them!) until they get the limo ride to heaven. But those who don't read the Bible and have no clue what is what in it, they get to go to heaven too...
It's like all other activities in the Reformed waiting room. Whether it's fornication (as Luther says), or whether it's bible reading, or whether it's praying or just plain being nasty, it makes no difference: they are all going to heaven, just because!
But, don't forget, it's not for their benefit; it's for God's glory. Somehow, their salvation will bring glory to God! (I am shaking my head)