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To: Alamo-Girl; Forest Keeper; Gamecock; irishtenor; HarleyD; Marysecretary; Quix; ...
The words of God are spirit and life. The words of men are neither spirit nor life.

AMEN!

From the excellent earlier thread...

THE CERTAINTY OF THE WRITTEN WORD OF TRUTH

"...The Holy Spirit Himself is given to the believer so that by prayer and diligent comparative study, knowledge of the Gospel and the will of God is made plain to him. It is this means alone, comparing Scripture with Scripture under the illuminating ministry of the Holy Spirit, that safeguards the renewed reader from the danger of imaginative self-centered mystical deceit and the errors propagated by religious fanaticism and cultic heresies. Natural men, those not made alive by the Holy Spirit and indwelt by Him, have only their darkened understandings to guide them..."

6,672 posted on 07/26/2008 10:22:53 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Thank you so much for your encouragements and that wonderful excerpt!
6,675 posted on 07/26/2008 10:38:12 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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