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To: kosta50
Besides, I though faith comes from God, not the Bible. Abraham, Noah, Job, etc., all had true faith (according to the Bible) without the scriptures.

It absolutely does, but God has given us the Scriptures to know Him better - as has been pointed out on this thread, Scripture *is* profitable, it is just not sufficient.

If one does not have faith, reading the Bible will not make him "see" the truth (because he hasn't been given the "eyes" to see), right? Yet Acts 17 seems to suggest otherwise

Agreed. But faith in God came to +Aquinas in a very different way than it came to +Teresa of Avila. Scripture, coupled with the oral teachings of Paul, is one path to Him - the Bereans apparently took that one.

229 posted on 07/21/2009 6:29:32 PM PDT by thefrankbaum (Ad maiorem Dei gloriam)
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To: thefrankbaum
It absolutely does, but God has given us the Scriptures to know Him better

How do you know that?

Scripture, coupled with the oral teachings of Paul, is one path to Him - the Bereans apparently took that one

Scriptures didn't give them faith, as Acts 17 suggests because multittudes of Greeks believed Paul without the scriptures and foreshadowing metaphors.

230 posted on 07/21/2009 8:01:14 PM PDT by kosta50 (Don't look up, the truth is all around you)
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