“John 16:12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.”
Jesus tells the apostles the night he was betrayed that he had a lot more to teach them and he would by the Holy Spirit. These teachings were to be of equal authority with the “red letters.”
Thanks for your responses.
I am not a sectarian Christian. I don’t belong to any church or organized system of Christian belief.
I believe profoundly in a Creator God; and I am devoted to the philosophy that Jesus actually espoused.
I don’t necessarily believe that Jesus was THE ‘Son of God’, any more than we all are. I believe that He was profoundly wise, and spiritually enlightened; and that if we all actually lived by His Sermon on the Mount, the world would be a much better place. And I believe that a lot in the Bible, OT and NT, is symbolical, with much deeper meaning than the literal surface would indicate.
But so many so-called ‘Christians’ do NOT really live by His simple teachings; and a lot of them just use scripture to batter people who believe otherwise.