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If you say this, "JESUS GAVE ALL BELIEVERS such [Apostolic] authority" and "Yes, the Scriptural standard is quite vitally important", you have a contradiction. That is because if your words have the same authority as that of the Apostles, then the New Testament is no more of a "standard" or "vitally important" than your own words or the words of any and all "believers".

-A8

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if your words have the same authority as that of the Apostles,

NO. I DIDN'T SAY THAT! I appreciate it more when folks avoid putting words in my fingers.

To judge something . . . one needs to know the goal, the standard of measure/criteria for determining whether the goal is reached and the context.

The Goal of Holy Spirit speaking to and through me is not to write more Scripture. What we have is quite sufficient.

The Scope of Holy Spirit's msg to me and/or through me is entirely different. Yes, the source is the same and the import IN MY LIFE can be similar or even the same. Because THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE HOLY SPIRIT. But it has nothing to do with being equal to Scripture. Nothing. I'm surprised that such a mentality appears at all except that I know satan uses that spurious logic to cause trouble.