Sorry, Scorpia, I had been off on an adventure where my online sources were too messed up to post and I missed this thread when I got back. You quoted something I had written: “and daily in here telling believers to set aside the words of Jesus as recorded by his disciples in their Bibles and listen instead to the audible voice of God and you have not asked God himself this question?â€Â
Scorpia wrote:
Aren't you putting your own words into my mouth with your statement above? Can you please quote me exactly and verbatim so as to clearly show to all what really I am saying in this forum?
OK, here are your quotes that gave me that impression:
Statements you wrote:
By God himself, the Lord Jesus, and not by the Scriptures that we can possess eternal life…..
So let's come to Jesus himself, the Lord God, and not to the Scriptures for us to have eternal life. Jesus is our Teacher of the Scriptures…..
This one is quite puzzling to me because God utters His word for He is alive and real and yet your saying God brings you verses, verses of the bible? God doesn't need the bible to talk to you, does He?…..
If God has already brought you to himself, the bible as your guide automatically ceases to function as your guide in coming to God because it is now the Lord God who will be your all, not only your guide, to know everything that you need to know from God to attain your salvation and eternal life.
Are they to be understood other than what you said?
Scorpia wrote:
What about you and mutzrein, as far as I know, you two guys are also buddies of the Lord God, aren't you? There is only ONe God of all and your God is my God and their God too. Can't you yourselves ask the Lord God for these things?
I ask God about what I read and within a few hours or days, I have an answer than I was unable to discern using my own logic and reasoning powers. I told you I didn’t have the gift of tongues, and the Bible says that not all believers do. It also says that within the assembly of believers, when one has a message like that, there should also be one to interpret or the tongues-speaker should just be quiet. Tongues are for edification, not confusion.
Scorpia wrote after reading John 14:26 :
I see no private knowledge in this part but just similar to just reading a book of someone's life, sorry.
That’s OK, Scorpia, we’re not supposed to. What it says is what it means unless it’s symbolic. 2 Peter 1:19-21
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.
Scorpia wrote:
The Lord said that He is just sending the Holy Spirit to the true believers of God as His (God) testimony to the believers that God is real and alive and also. for the believers to feel the Lord God physically for this filling of the Holy Spirit can always be felt physically by the believers. The Lord further teaches that the Holy Spirit does not speak, hence the HS never teaches anyone and you yourself can testify to this because there in no HS really teaching you, I myslef, mutzrein, and others in this forum. It is just the thought and own understanding of the bible readers that teaches, not the Holy Spirit per se. The Lord said that not all as recorded in the bible is correct and true, even this particular verse.
The Bible says that the Spirit of God takes the things of God and shows them to us. It says he won’t speak of himself, but it doesn’t say he won’t speak. I don’t know if it is audible here or not:
John 16:13
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.
I have never experienced a vision of the Lord Jesus Christ coming to me to teach me. Have you? How does God, Jesus or the Spirit communicate with you, Scorpia?
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