Oh I read the rest of the comment. “Spiritual things are Spiritually decerned” as in the scripture metmom posted. Trying to understand without the Holy Spirit only leads to error.
Sure, that is true, but to what extent is it true is the question?
Do we not need to use our hands to open the Bible when we want to read it? Will the Holy Spirit do that for us? If I need to locate a verse, do I ask the Holy Spirit where it is, or can I use the table of contents or the index?
metmom has asserted, referring to the Holy Spirit, that I can’t even breathe without it, which is obviously a falsehood, since billions of unbelievers, who have not the Holy Spirit, continue breathing.
What I am saying is there are times we definitely need the Holy Spirit to assist us, or we will fail, and times that obviously we have the tools at our own disposal to ascertain certain things. To confuse the two does no service to the Holy Spirit or to your Christian brethren. Taken too far, it encourages a spiritual laziness that is inexcusable.