We all can read words but is when the Lord talks to you through the written word than you have received a witness. Once you experience that sweet taste you will never forget it.
What makes you think Cynical Bear, or I, haven’t experienced the Lord speaking to our hearts through His sacred Scriptures? What makes you think we haven’t tasted that sweetness of God’s word? What makes you think we haven’t received a witness - the Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God? When two people read Scripture and come away with two completely contradictory meanings, which one is right and which one is in error?
If all you can rely upon is “feelings”, you are standing on shaky ground. In case you don’t know this, the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.
Why else did God give us His word if not so that we could know truth from error and have a rule of faith which is authoritative and by which all claims of truth must be measured?
I will pray for your eyes to be opened to the truth of the gospel.
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I am glad you wrote this I have read this many times and I am very puzzle who is teaching this method.
They are many believers who adhere to this style.
So could you please when did this type of believing began?
Thank you
It would be nice to have a discussion without trying to weed through all the spam
Now I don’t’ want to mislead you I find you approach very unorthodox
At present I am trying to do too many things at once I am you have non cyber things to attend too!
You think I'm preaching some kind of unorthodox teaching "method"? How about you just answer the question instead of trying to divert? You claimed, and implied, that Cynical Bear and I must not have "received a witness" through the Holy Scriptures or experienced their "sweet taste" because we don't agree with your religion and how it teaches the truths of God. There is no real mystery here about when this "type of believing" began, because they are just plain-old-always-have-been believed doctrines that Jesus gave us through His word.
I have received the witness of the Holy Spirit and He affirms all that Scripture teaches. You want to imply that we can't possibly be telling the truth since we don't believe what your religion teaches. We should have a more firm foundation for our faith than just "feelings". Our faith in built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness. We dare not trust the sweetest frame but wholly lean on Jesus' name. On Christ the solid rock we stand, all other ground is sinking sand. Don't trust the sand!