Dorothy Mae
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How can non-believers, the unregenerated, do his teaching at all when it is likely that you believe we cannot do so without the Holy Spirit? Think about it. You are saying Jesus told the unregenerated to do as he teaches on their own power with no help and after that, they will know the truth?Jesus was talking to non believers from the quote you used. When speaking to His disciples he spoke this way...
What’s the difference? Jesus was saying to anyone listening, in my view, that if they actually DO what he teaches, their minds will come to know truth from untruth.(Joh 8:31-32) So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly My disciples; and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
We cannot do the teaching of Jesus without his word. That’s our source of knowing it.Besides, it's a bit self defeating to use Scripture to try to prove God's Word is not fully needed
You asked how one is to know which understanding or theology of scripture is the truth. I am showing you how. If the Word of God, the teaching of Jesus, lives in a persons whole being, that is, it influences their choices, they see the truth from untruth. This we see in the book of Acts at times.