The righteous gold in Scripture is usually quite accessible to the simplest child of good heart.What vernacular is the OT (or NT) written in?
In that time period what was written by whom? Are those thoughts crude?
What does Scripture intimate about God's thoughts concerning "wisdom" and the "educated"?
You're absolutely correct in your assessment. Let me tell you one thing with certitude:
this is NOT an excercise in intellectual proficiency. I can cite you emminent professors that have major portions of Scripture memorized and don't believe a single word of it.
There is NO way that one can be illuminated by truth without the Holy Spirit's influence; that will NEVER come without asking for it.
Well put.
You’re right. Without the Holy Spirit in us, the Bible is just another book with no understanding and no revelation.