The answer would be no for if you have the anointing of the Holy Spirit you would know truth,
Please! Anyone can claim that. And every crackpot and fraud does claim that.
The Apostles were taught by God the Son in a yeshiva mode.
Their disciples were taught by experts.
Paul was taught by an expert. (Gamaliel)
Paul taught disciples in the school of Tyrannus. (Act 19:9)
Imagine a person needing surgery selecting a surgeon who has never been to medical school but has read
Schwartz's Principles of Surgery every morning for the past 10 years and is led by the Holy Spirit.
Would you not think that person a fool for putting his life in such a self-declared "surgeon's" hands?
Yet you would place your eternal life in your own hands and despise the learning of those who have actually done the work necessary to rightly divide the word of truth.
That seems to me to be the foolishness and arrogance of which I see so much among far too many self-appointed but poorly educated, Bible experts.
Latin root word for religion is bondage,
That's a pretty simplistic statement. A root word does not define the meaning of its derivative. A word is defined by its usage.
Digging a bit deeper than that is a very simple task to do so.
From Wikipedia:
The Latin term religiō, origin of the modern lexeme religion (via Old French/Middle Latin[2]) is of ultimately obscure etymology. It is recorded beginning in the 1st century BC, i.e. in Classical Latin at the beginning of the Roman Empire, notably by Cicero, in the sense of "scrupulous or strict observance of the traditional cultus".
Etymology
The classical explanation of the word, traced to Cicero himself, derives it from re- (again) + lego in the sense of "choose", "go over again" or "consider carefully". Modern scholars such as Tom Harpur and Joseph Campbell favor the derivation from ligo "bind, connect", probably from a prefixed re-ligare, i.e. re- (again) + ligare or "to reconnect," which was made prominent by St. Augustine, following the interpretation of Lactantius.[3][4]
The problem with these etymologies, regardless of whether one favours lego or ligo, is that the now-familiar prefix re- "again" is not attested prior to its occurrence in religio and is itself in need of an etymological explanation.
From Wiktionary:
Noun
religiō f (genitive religiōnis); third declension
- scrupulousness, conscientious exactness
- piety, religious scruple, religious awe, superstition, strict religious observance
- scruples, conscientiousness
- (of gods) sanctity
- an object of worship, holy thing, holy place
which is different then that of Gods pure religion of
James 1:27, but that of following tradition and the doctrine of a mans church, not Gods true Church.
You have a problem with traditions?
In your Holy Spirit illuminated daily study of scripture for the past 40 years did you never notice that Paul PRESCRIBED keeping traditions?
1Co 11:2 (NKJV)
Now I praise you, brethren, that you remember me in all things and keep the traditions just as I delivered them to you.
2Th 2:15
Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle.
2Th 3:6
But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us.
I hear that kind of nonsense all the time. What the speaker of that nonsense is unfailingly and totally unaware of is that his/her personal religious preference (which he/she has mistaken for the truly true faith) is invariably just another one of the many examples of the "doctrine of a mans church" and not, as imagined, the pure doctrine that Jesus taught. The claim to possess profound understanding of "the pure religion" is, of course, pure rubbish. And it is consistently based on a dismal ignorance of the origins of his/her beloved "truly true, pure religion".
So, once again, and with numbingly boring consistency, the arrogance of assuming that one's special anointing from the Holy Spirit gives one the ability to overcome their ignorance of Biblical languages, culture, modes of rhetoric, literary conventions, etc., combined with an overweening pride in one's ignorance, triumphs over actual scholarship and learning.
yawn
