The Inspiration of the Bible

"I suspect that you've been a Christian long enough to have a Scripture jump out at you with 'neon lights around it' so to speak, signifying that it had a special immediat or current application to a burden or something you'd been concerned, praying about."

Well said. Don't you just love it when that happens? Praise Jesus Christ; Lord and Saviour of them that believe Him.

"God has delivered His Book to the custody, not of the scholars, the universities, colleges or seats of learning, but only to His saints.
Can any ordinary saint know what is a proper version of God's Word? Can any ordinary saint who has no knowledge whatever of the original languages know what is a proper version of God's Word or which is absolutely reliable? The answer is "yes" or else Jude verse 3 is error. Jude verse 3 is not error but divinely revealed truth. The attempt to bamboozle the ordinary saints of God with irrelevant controversy must be demonstrated. The ploy to take from the saints their divinely appointed role of custody of the Book and place it in the hands of scholars must be exposed for what it is, a device of the devil himself.
Thank God for the simplicity which is in Christ which devastates the duplicity which is in Satan."

Satan has created many evil cults bearing the Christian name but denyiny the Lord Jesus Christ crucifixion for our sins and ressurrection for our salvation by using this same evil ploy and led many into the pit by using unbelieving theologians; and yet God continues to triumph through Christ Jesus.

" The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion; rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning; thou hast the dew of thy youth." Ps.110:1,2,3

Thought so.

There's NO significant difference between THAT sort of experience and Holy Spirit speaking through the range of modalities/manners mentioned in Acts 2 as well as I Cor 12-14.

The only significant problems are biases on the part of believers about what God wouldn't/couldn't do according to their tidy little boxes they try to keep Him in.

The phenomenon of the experience of having the verse jump out at you has nothing to do with the ink on the page. It is totally a function of Holy Spirit in this time/space dimension NOW. And it shouldn't be at all surprising given Christ's promise that Holy Spirit would LEAD US (BELIEVERS) into ALL Truth . . . as well as that His Sheep would KNOW HIS *VOICE*!

Denying that is an exercise in mental and spiritual gymnsastics that is embarrassing to observe.

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