Those of us who read and love God’s Word KNOW it is from Him. Scripture is utterly amazing and life-giving and life-changing because it is communicated by His Spirit.
It is pure Fantaslyand to imagine knowing God without it. He has been having men, guided by the Spirit, WRITE DOWN His words for millennia. They did so and He preserved it. The unsearchable riches of Christ are shared there.
Scoffers need nothing but the flimsiest unbelief to denigrate them, while imagining they know the Author in a higher way. “I see God in my dog/kids/garden/beer/etc.!” Liars. All of that can be shaken, and will be. They need to move from unbelief to faith and discover what cannot be shaken, God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!
Meanwhile, you can bet they’re hanging on every WORD coming from the father of lies through: TV, the movies, the books the websites, the music, the air whooshing through their heads.
Well and truly stated. O er the decades I have used a measuring rod with those who claim they were just born again: do they have a hunger for the Scriptures, for in them they hear their Father, by His Spirit.