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OK let's look at the subject of "teachers" this way. We should all agree that only the Bible is infallible in its teaching. Besides Jesus there is no teacher who is infallible.
Let's use Spurgeon as an example. Let's say I am reading all of Spurgeon's sermons (quite a feat). There might be a few with which I totally agree upon and there might be a few that don't quite seem right. I am allowing the Holy Spirit to teach me through these sermons. Some Biblically correct some Biblically incorrect. I proof everything he says against the Bible. I find some of his teaching spot on but I find some that go against God's Word. I will follow God's Word in the teaching so I will reject some of Spurgeon's teaching.
Now let's say I am doing the same thing without proofing it against God's Word or allowing the Holy Spirit to guide me. I will for sure end up following Spurgeon's teaching and some of that teaching will be incorrect Biblically.
We are to use these teachers to help us understand God's Word but we are not to take their writing as truth unless they are 100 % Biblically correct. I seriously doubt we will ever find a "human" teacher beyond Christ who is 100 % Biblically correct. We must therefore completely rely upon the Holy Spirit when reading the writing of someone else. If we do this then He will teach us His truth through the writing of someone else. If we just rely upon the writing of a particular person then we have essentially created a "new cult" based on what this other person has said.
It can be a very fine line between truth and lie hense why we must rely 100 % upon the Holy Spirit for guidance.
Let's use Spurgeon as an example. Let's say I am reading all of Spurgeon's sermons (quite a feat). There might be a few with which I totally agree upon and there might be a few that don't quite seem right. I am allowing the Holy Spirit to teach me through these sermons. Some Biblically correct some Biblically incorrect. I proof everything he says against the Bible. I find some of his teaching spot on but I find some that go against God's Word. I will follow God's Word in the teaching so I will reject some of Spurgeon's teaching.
Now let's say I am doing the same thing without proofing it against God's Word or allowing the Holy Spirit to guide me. I will for sure end up following Spurgeon's teaching and some of that teaching will be incorrect Biblically.
We are to use these teachers to help us understand God's Word but we are not to take their writing as truth unless they are 100 % Biblically correct. I seriously doubt we will ever find a "human" teacher beyond Christ who is 100 % Biblically correct. We must therefore completely rely upon the Holy Spirit when reading the writing of someone else. If we do this then He will teach us His truth through the writing of someone else. If we just rely upon the writing of a particular person then we have essentially created a "new cult" based on what this other person has said.
It can be a very fine line between truth and lie hense why we must rely 100 % upon the Holy Spirit for guidance.