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If you doubt the authority of any Scripture, you need to read that Scripture more, and with a cleared mind.
So often, we read the Word with our minds rather than our hearts, and end up trying to grasp understanding from it, rather than just take it in.
The authority of Revelation is plain to me, spiritually, because of it's work upon my heart;
and the same for the rest of Scripture. My mind may have doubts, but my spirit has none on the matter.
If you seek Truth, read and meditate upon the Word.
Stop trying to figure it out through external investigation.
Investigate with your spirit, through experiencing the Word.
So often, we read the Word with our minds rather than our hearts, and end up trying to grasp understanding from it, rather than just take it in.
The authority of Revelation is plain to me, spiritually, because of it's work upon my heart;
and the same for the rest of Scripture. My mind may have doubts, but my spirit has none on the matter.
If you seek Truth, read and meditate upon the Word.
Stop trying to figure it out through external investigation.
Investigate with your spirit, through experiencing the Word.
if you're making that point based on your supposition that God is displaying favoritism if He chooses to heal some and not others, or to show mercy to some and not others, wholly on the basis of John 5:4, and so wishing to reject this verse, i wonder what you make of God choosing Abraham, or choosing Isaac above Ishmael, reserving Israel as His chosen people, or choosing Paul, or the twelve, or even choosing to show mercy to us while we were ungodly and offering us an undeserved salvation? was it 'wrong' of Him to choose Jerusalem and one particular threshing floor for a temple to His name, instead of blanketing the entire surface of the earth with tabernacles?
there were many people at the pool, and Christ healed one of them. does this make Him unjust? did a single one of them deserve it?
more to the point, do you believe God is sovereign and shows mercy to whom He will show mercy, as He told Moses, since you say you accept the OT?
or do you think His will should be subject to human judgement and should be rejected if it fails your logic?
i mean, i did not deserve mercy. He chose to show it to me. should i reject that?
there were many people at the pool, and Christ healed one of them. does this make Him unjust? did a single one of them deserve it?
more to the point, do you believe God is sovereign and shows mercy to whom He will show mercy, as He told Moses, since you say you accept the OT?
or do you think His will should be subject to human judgement and should be rejected if it fails your logic?
i mean, i did not deserve mercy. He chose to show it to me. should i reject that?
Daniel 8, 2nd beast kingdom given to the 3rd kingdom.
1In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel,
2And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace,
which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.
-Verse 1 dates when the prophecy was written.
(Daniel recorded) the vision in the (third year) of the reign of (Belshazzar)—550 b.c.
He was at (Shushan), at the palace in (the province of Elam) (verse 2).
1In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel,
2And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace,
which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.
-Verse 1 dates when the prophecy was written.
(Daniel recorded) the vision in the (third year) of the reign of (Belshazzar)—550 b.c.
He was at (Shushan), at the palace in (the province of Elam) (verse 2).