We are very much on the same page. Many is the time when I have picked up the bible, read something, a single verse or even a single phrase and it just jumbed out and hit me between the eyes.
And your example below is one we can all learn from. Good point.
JD
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From: Terry Clifton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Apocrypha
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From: Terry Clifton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 15:59:27 -0500
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Apocrypha
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A good example would be that "the Holy Spirit will lead me into all truth." I believe that, but I have yet to experience that. I must believe that because it is God speaking. He is smarter than me. He knows what He is saying. He never lies, so in spite of my experience, what seems correct in my mind, that I do not have all truth, God's word is still true. I simply must accept that statement as truth from God, and someday I will understand.
That make sense?
Terry
I hear what you are saying, John, and I agree with it almost totally. There are times though, when I read something in God's word and I say to myself, "That does not agree with my experience. My experience is nothing like that".The notion that we pick of the Bible, read it and believe it apart from the process of evaluation and acceptance is simple not possible. You can cast the project in whatever light you desire; YOU play a role in what you believe the message says. I have said it before and I say it again: it is never "what the Bible says" -- rather, it is always "what I beleive the Bible says." And that is precisely why we need the graciuous invention of God .................. He makes us correct IN HIS MIND while we DO the best that we can. None on this forum has another approach regardless of the rhetoric.JD
A good example would be that "the Holy Spirit will lead me into all truth." I believe that, but I have yet to experience that. I must believe that because it is God speaking. He is smarter than me. He knows what He is saying. He never lies, so in spite of my experience, what seems correct in my mind, that I do not have all truth, God's word is still true. I simply must accept that statement as truth from God, and someday I will understand.
That make sense?
Terry
