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I see a great deal of irony here. You're pushback against trusting the Spirit of God as He leads, guides, directs, corrects, and comforts us from the intimacy of our own hearts is that what I am proposing to trust in is the "least trustworthy" thing in all creation. And this is in spite of the...

This forms a chicken and egg dillema. Which came first? Did the Scriptures come first, or did knowledge of God come first? Obviously, God inspired people to write the Scriptures. The source of their inspiration was not the Bible. God Himself was their source. He led them, and they followed. That...

This is not true either. Many Scriptures indicate that God, not the Bible, is the cheif evangelist. Here is one example: It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me. (Jn 6:45) Replacing "God"...

I see equating the Bible with God as one big step forward in a long progression of bad doctrines that have distanced man from God. And I suspect that your involvement in the movement is more than superficial. I don't think I can help you overcome it. But I know who can help you... 5 If any of...

The Bible is not the 4th member of the trinity.

Hello TruthTruth. It seems as though you have become a victim of a logical fallacy. It goes something like this: Jesus is the Word and The Bible is the Word, therefore Jesus is the Bible and the Bible is Jesus. And since Jesus is God, the Bible is also God.

Interesting verse. There are many like it. Here are the notes in the margin of the NKJV - 1 Sam. 16:7; 1 Chr. 28:9; Matt. 9:4; [Mark 2:8]; John 6:64; 16:30; Acts 1:24; Rev. 2:23. As regards a person's salvation, it seems reasonable to think that when a person responds to God's evangelistic...

It would not be possible to categorize them all. Suffice it to say that God knows the good from the bad, and He guides us into all truth (Jn 16:13). The life of faith which we live requires us to trust Him in whatever He reveals to us. If He leads us toward something, it is right. If He leads us...

When we accept bad doctrine as true, God uses it to drive us to repentance. Sometimes, our response is to double-down on the doctrine that broke us. Hopefully, if God's patience lasts long enough, one will realize that the doctrine is in error and will turn from it to the truth.

Doesn't preaching God's soverignty require one to acknowledge the truth of every inspired Scripture, especially those which give us insight into His decisionmaking? In the case of 1 Corinthians 1:21, God's peasure is stated to be in saving those who believe. And the grammar makes it clear that...

That it pleases Him to save those who believe is evident.

Yeah, you're right, mostly. I pass over most of these opportunities to rehash the same issues over and over, but occasionally I'm drawn to respond to something someone says, as in this OP. The premise here is that God is soverign over election but not over free will. And my answer is quite...

This is a common argument. It goes like this: My understanding of the Bible is correct. Any view of the Bible which contradicts my view is wrong. Therefore, if you disagree with me, you are disagreeing with the Bible. But I have never seen that argument produce any converts.

It does seem particularly difficult to argue that salvation comes before faith, given that 1 Corinthians 1:21 says that in God's Soverignty He was the one who decided that He would save those who believe the seemingly foolish gospel.

Yes! We know Him because He (directly) reveals Himself to us. We know the truth because He (directly) reveals it to us (Jn 16:13). We know the deep things of God because He (directly) reveals them to us (1 Cor 2:10-11). Whe know we are children of God and joint heirs with Christ because He...