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With your knowledge, it would be better for you to build up the body of Christ than tear down.
Asking for biblical support is not tearing down. How can one be built up or grow if they believe the Bible says things that it does not?
I don't understand what your point is here. How does this relate to the discussion?
Hello Edward, the simple answer to both questions is yes. And it just slays me when people tell me, "And don't give me that Holy Spirit crap." They just, short of repentance, blas-phemed the Holy Spirit. There are a number of important issues here, but the most important issue here, I feel, is how do you know you are indwelt and second to that is, how does a body deal with Him? Through the Holy we are called to become Saints (Rom 1:7; 1 Cor 1:2); we are called to “eternal life” (1 Tim 6:12); we are called “out of darkness into the light” (1 Pet 2:9); and by the spirit you were called to virtue and to glory. (2 Pet 1:3)
Just as you see spiritual flaws in Edward, and you feel the Spirit guiding you to correct him so that he may be taught, I also am being guided by the Spirit so that you too might be taught. In essence, what you have written to me in regard to being taught also applies to yourself.
Of course it applies to me. It isn't a matter of feeling the Spirit guiding me to correct him; it is what Christians are supposed to do.
I have never said otherwise about any of those points.
Is letting error pass for truth the right way to go about things? Is that building someone up? And when I ask questions, I am not always challenging. I am often seeking clarification.
Nothing I wrote invalidates his efforts or insulted his intelligence.
You claim that is a partial truth but it is not, unless you can provide biblical support for such an assertion. Edward has already admitted that is not what he meant.
No one is insulting anyone.
That the Holy Spirit works, at times, in unbelievers' hearts is very different from saying that "There is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in all even unbelievers. Each man gets a measure."
I am not sure what you're saying "Exactly" to. I was asking you what you meant by that statement.
Yes. Paul clearly says, in referring back to Exodus 34:29-35, that "...when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed" (2 Cor. 3:16, ESV).
I cannot think of a verse where it is promised to us that he will lead us into all truth. He certainly won't lead us astray but as humans we tend to do that ourselves or let it be done to us. And it is worth saying that the Holy Spirit guiding us to truth comes in different forms. This is where many people get caught thinking that it is only through prayer that the Holy Spirit will show us what a certain passage of Scripture means.
This is a different veil than what Paul was referring to 2 Cor. 3. But the reason I asked is because you said: "This isn't about power to be able to do miracles or to be able to cross the veil into the third heaven and approach the throne. Those are gifts, grace."
Then people must be reading into why and how I am saying things. I cannot do anything about that.
When you are led by the Spirit, you are faithful in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 1:1)
First Brother, I have no issue with your acedemia. I am not speaking against it.
What do you mean by this?
Where does he do this?
What truth did he have? How was I not loving? What do you mean by "challenging"?