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To: swampfox101
Contradictions in the Bible is truth or God's mysteries hidden in plain sight.
Also the bible is not to be understood by man's intellect or human reasoning because human reasoning and man's intellect is flawed compared to God's ways or thoughts.
The bible is to be understood through the eyes of the holy spirit... and what does the bible, or Jesus say sometimes ? he who has eyes to see, let him see, or he who has hears to hear ? let him hear what the spirit of God is saying.

147 posted on 03/03/2013 9:12:16 PM PST by American Constitutionalist
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To: American Constitutionalist

“Contradictions in the Bible is truth or God’s mysteries hidden in plain sight.”

The mysteries have been reveled, they are no longer mysteries:

Col. 1:25-27 “of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God, the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”

Eph. 3:8&9 “ To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;”

“Also the bible is not to be understood by man’s intellect or human reasoning because human reasoning and man’s intellect is flawed compared to God’s ways or thoughts”

God disagrees with you...God says his word is Truth.

John 17:17 “Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.”

Not only that, God’s word was not written by “MERE MEN” It was written by men “inspired” of God. The Holy Spirit guided these men In ALL TRUTH and they wrote it down.

John 14:25-26 “These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.”

John 63:12-152 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.3 However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.”

“The bible is to be understood through the eyes of the holy spirit...”

The Spirit guided the writers of the Bible and they wrote it so that you and I could understand it, that’s why the scriptures can be trusted, they weren’t written by “MERE MEN” but by God Himself.

I Cor.2:10-12 “ But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.”

“and what does the bible, or Jesus say sometimes ? he who has eyes to see, let him see, or he who has hears to hear ? let him hear what the spirit of God is saying.”

Correct. The Spirit speaks to us through God’s word. He does not speak of “Himelf”, He can only speak of Christ. The Spirit speaks to us by teaching us God’s gospel of His Son. It is that gospel that saves us. The gospel of Christ.

Romans 1:16&17 “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”

You and I are drawn to God through His Son Jesus by being taught the gospel of Jesus Christ.

John 6:44&45 “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.

You and I “hear” and “learn” by God’s word.

Hebrews 1:1 teaches us that God speaks to us ONE WAY and ONE WAY ONLY and that’s through HIS SON...!

Hebrews 1:1&2 “God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds;”


181 posted on 03/04/2013 6:43:14 PM PST by swampfox101
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