If it were important, the text would tell us. It doesn't. Your pretense of personal revelation is either your massive ego or a false spirit whispering lies to you.
How do preachers or teachers explain this?
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Again you contradict and add to the words of God...
"Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved" (Acts 16:31). There is nothing anywhere in Scripture about "It must be proven".
This is one of the things I testify to you concerning Ecclesiastes 1:9 and Matthew 24:35. To the Jews who believed in the Word of God, God did not reveal the truth to them. Rather, the Lord revealed it only to His chosen ones.
MARK 4:34
34 But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.
MATTHEW 13:11
11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
And this truth does not pass away. The Lord is still doing the same thing for His chosen ones. We who know the one true God testify to this because He has revealed to us what He wrote on the ground. It has been revealed to us that what He wrote had to do with the truth.
However, to those who claim to believe in the Word of God but do not know the one true God, He has not revealed it. Therefore, they do not know it.
MATTHEW 13:12-13
12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
It is easy to say that. Even the groups that make up Christianity today say the same thing. However, the fact that they have four different descriptions of the Lord Jesus is evidence that their beliefs are not in accordance with the truth.
Therefore, it is clear that what you are saying is the Word of God as interpreted merely by man.
Only God reveals the truth in His Word, not me.
For God Himself gives understanding, as stated in Proverbs 2:6.
He reveals it to those who know the one true God.
If it has not been revealed to you, then it is proof that you do not yet know the one true God and are merely claiming to know Him.
Not everyone who claims to believe in the Word of God is given the truth in His Word.
This was the case with the Jews in the time of the Lord Jesus, to whom He did not reveal the truth because they did not know the one true God (John 8:54–55) (Mark 4:34).
He revealed it only to the disciples who knew the one true God (Matthew 16:15–17).
And that Word has not passed away (Ecc 1:9 & Matt 24:35), so the Lord is doing the same thing in our time today.
We who know the one true God testify that what He wrote on the ground is important because it has a great deal to do with salvation.
All that remains for me to say is this:
We who know the one true God are as though we had lived in the Old Testament.
We witnessed all the events, and we asked God questions about them.
It is also as though we had lived in the New Testament and witnessed everything that happened, so we ask the Lord Jesus about them.
Yet even though we are living in the present generation, we can clearly see and witness that the events of the past are no different from what is happening today (Ecclesiastes 1:9). Indeed, God’s Word does not pass away (Matthew 24:35).
And the only reason we can see these things so clearly today is because we have come to know the one true God.
Yes, I agree with the Bible verses you quote. But Jesus saying to the disciples, " it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven," doesn't mean that they knew every unknown thing, like what He wrote on the ground, or when His Second Coming would take place.
Yes, but if you know what Jesus wrote on the ground, and you believe it would help others to know that too, why not tell us?
I agree that God reveals things to those who know and believe His Son. But that doesn't mean that He reveals everything to them, and certainly not things that are not taught in His word, or even go against His word.
That is no proof at all. Your understanding of evidence and proof are laughably inadequate.
Yeah... whatever. Eventually you will understand that your self-righteousness and self-exaltation are putrid to the Lord.
You say that you believe in the Lord Jesus.
You also say that you accept the Lord Jesus as the Savior of your life.
You have also said that your understanding of the Word of God is based on what is written in the Scriptures.
Now you are saying that everything has already been completed in the Holy Bible, so there is no longer any need for God to reveal anything through His words that are not written in it.
So, how can you know and testify that your name is written in the Book of Life?
REVELATION 20:15
15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
But Jesus saying to the disciples, " it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven," doesn't mean that they knew every unknown thing, like what He wrote on the ground
No one can say this with certainty, because the Lord Jesus Himself said so in Matthew 13:11.
We who have come to know the one true God keep His commandments.
Anyone who lacks wisdom should ask God for it, not their fellow human beings.
Because you yourself quoted what God said: that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23).”
JAMES 1:5-8
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
I agree that God reveals things to those who know and believe His Son.
The Lord Jesus reveals the truth through His words to His disciples because they know the one true God.
But that doesn't mean that He reveals everything to them, and certainly not things that are not taught in His word, or even go against His word.
How can you deny what the Lord Jesus said
MARK 4:34
34 But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.
If my name was not written in the book of life, I wouldn't believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. God's word tells me that it is those who believe in Jesus Christ who are saved, and have eternal life. Those who are cast into the lake of fire do not believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
NKJV Jhn 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
Jhn 3:15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
Jhn 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Rom 10:8 But what does it say? "THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART" (that is, the word of faith which we preach):
Rom 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Rom 10:10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Rom 10:11 For the Scripture says, "WHOEVER BELIEVES ON HIM WILL NOT BE PUT TO SHAME."
Verses like those assure me that I have eternal life and am saved. To use Revelation's words, my name is indeed in the book of life.
Yes, I agree with James 1:5-8. But wisdom does not include knowledge of things that God has not chosen to reveal in His word, like what it was that Jesus wrote on the ground. Look at James's words in context:
NKJV Jas 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,
Jas 1:3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.
Jas 1:4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
Jas 1:5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
Jas 1:6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.
Jas 1:7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;
Jas 1:8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
So the wisdom being spoken of is in the context of trials, testing of our faith, and patience. Do you really believe that James was writing about knowing things that are not revealed in the Bible, like who Cain married, what happened to the body of Moses, and what Jesus wrote on the ground?
I do NOT deny what the Lord Jesus said. He expounded all things to His disciples. So when He was expounding, He was not talking in parables. When Jesus told the man who had been demon-possessed to go and tell his friends what great things the Lord had done for him, were those words a parab;e?
NKJV Mrk 5:19 However, Jesus did not permit him, but said to him, "Go home to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He has had compassion on you."
When He told Nicodemus, "You must be born again," that weas no parable.