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To: hosepipe
So your faith is in the bible, not God... like I have said.. You’re not alone.. many worship the bible... Some worship their “church”... others worship saints and artifacts.. etc.. So worshiping bible lore is quite normal... Jesus never said read the bible.. but go to the Holy Spirit.. That takes faith to believe in and follow the Holy Spirit.. an “invisible friend”.. True the bible is visible tangible literal... like an idol.. so I understand that..

My faith is in God alone and, because it is, I know I can trust the sacred Scriptures HE commanded to be written and which HE preserves so that we can have an objective authoritative rule of faith to know truth from error. Lots of people think they are relying solely on the Holy Spirit, because they are trusting in their OWN feelings, however, we can know that when someone feels something is true the only way to KNOW if it is is to go to the objective and authoritative rule of faith, the Bible. It alone contains what holy men of God spoke as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit - that SAME Holy Spirit you seem to think didn't "need" to lead men to write.

If you want to trust in your own feelings or those of others whom you are convinced have the right feelings, then go ahead, you have that freedom to choose for yourself what master you follow. However, I also have that freedom and I have decided long ago that I can trust what God's word says because heaven and earth (those things you can feel) will pass away but His word will NEVER pass away. It remains the ONLY offensive weapon in the spiritual warfare going on all around us - the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God. Whether or not someone can read it doesn't change that fact.

2,388 posted on 12/27/2013 10:44:51 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: boatbums
Amen dear sister!

John 17:17 "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth"

2,389 posted on 12/27/2013 11:47:14 PM PST by mitch5501 ("make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things ye shall never fall")
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To: boatbums

that SAME Holy Spirit you seem to think didn’t “need” to lead men to write.


I didn’t say that... the fact that you think I did say that exposes that you trust in filtered verbiage..

The Logos cannot be written down.. because the logos is a person..
The word of God is a person.. not mumblings.. grunts.. of human language...
You seem to filter words thru an agenda..

Which is better than nothing.. I contend there is something better..


2,390 posted on 12/27/2013 11:59:00 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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