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To: NKP_Vet

“The Bible is not easy to understand and that’s why we have the Cathecism of the Catholic Church. No one can figure out the teachings in the Bible by themselves.”

You greatly err because you do not know what the Bible says.

Matthew 16:17
Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.”

John 16:13
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.

1 Corinthians 2:10-16
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. These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

1 John 2:27
But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.

We see from the account of Peter that his understanding of the things of God were revealed to him by God. We understand further from the teachings of Christ, Paul and John that it is the Holy Spirit that gives us understanding of the scriptures rather than man or our own natural abilities (even though they are from God as well).

Human teaching and writing can give believers and unbelievers a natural comprehension of language, history, context, etc. about the scriptures. But only the Spirit of God reveals the spiritual truths of the scriptures. Neither the catechism nor any clergymen can take the place of the Holy Spirit.


23 posted on 12/16/2013 11:54:46 AM PST by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: unlearner

26 posted on 12/16/2013 12:08:19 PM PST by narses (... unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.)
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To: unlearner

So you’re calling Jimmy Swaggart a liar and con-man? LOL.


32 posted on 12/16/2013 1:49:44 PM PST by NKP_Vet ("God never tires of forgiving us, we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy" - Pope Francis)
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