LittleNipper wrote:The reality is that GOD has all knowledge. We will never possess all knowledge for we are not GOD. And right now we are limited to this life we live and what God has desired to reveal to us. Yes, we may study, but our study should never replace or be held above GOD's revelation. What one sees as a contradiction of scripture should thrust the one who loves the Lord towards more Bible study and prayer.
My comments to you were spurred by your following claims:
LittleNipper wrote:
... Although these works were written independently, they show an amazing congruency and they never contradict each other!
LittleNipper wrote:
So show us a contradiction, and I may show that you have a misunderstanding of the Bible.
It appears you are not able to back up your own claims when someone rises up to meet your own challenge.
You also wrote this:
God speaks through His Holy Word ---- The Bible. He tells us what He likes and dislikes. He explains why we need salvation and who Jesus Christ is.
What you failed to recognize is written in the passages of the Bible is this:
1 John 5:7-8 (KJV)
7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.In other words, the "Word" bears record in Heaven; NOT ON EARTH. On the earth, it is the Holy Spirit who bears witness; NOT THE WORD. John is telling us that it is the Holy Spirit who will do the explaining and teaching here on earth. Yet YOU have contradicted the Bible and have confessed to following on the earth something which does not bear record on the earth.
God is a LIVING God. Neither He nor His Son exist in the Bible. To learn and understand God and His Son you MUST be led by the Holy Spirit. And as Jesus taught, it will be
the Holy Spirit (the Comforter) who will lead us to ALL TRUTH; not just those parts of Truth which happen to be written down in the book we call The Bible and which, by the way, STILL need to be interpreted through the power of the Holy Spirit and NOT by man. We are on the earth; the Word does not bear record on the earth!!!
GOD DOES NOT USE THE Bible TO SPEAK TO US; HE USES THE HOLY SPIRIT TO SPEAK TO US. As such, the Bible will ONLY be a stumbling block UNLESS it is the Holy Spirit who is leading and speaking and teaching not only the parts of Truth recorded in the Bible, but to ALL TRUTH.
He that has ears, let him hear!!
Blessings,
jo