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1 | Calvin or Armini | Bible general Archive 3 | stjohn | 186772 | ||
Hello Lookn, What would you say is the conformation of truth? That witch is discerned by understanding of the written word? ( OR ) That witch is discerned by the Spirit? I hope your enjoying the forum. God bless. John |
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2 | Calvin or Armini | Bible general Archive 3 | DocTrinsograce | 186778 | ||
Hi, John... I haven't read all the thread... but you need to be careful not to present what is called a false dichotomy. In my own tradition, the old divines wrote "The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience..." However, they added "We may be moved and induced by the testimony of the church of God to an high and reverent esteem of the Holy Scriptures; and the heavenliness of the matter, the efficacy of the doctrine, and the majesty of the style, the consent of all the parts, the scope of the whole (which is to give all glory to God), the full discovery it makes of the only way of man's salvation, and many other incomparable excellencies, and entire perfections thereof, are arguments whereby it doth abundantly evidence itself to be the Word of God; yet notwithstanding, our full persuasion and assurance of the infallible truth, and divine authority thereof, is from the inward work of the Holy Spirit bearing witness by and with the Word in our hearts. (John 16:13,14; 1 Corinthians 2:10-12; 1 John 2:20, 27)" * Both the Word and the Spirit are absolutely essential for the believer. Both. In Him, Doc * 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith, Chapter 1 |
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3 | Calvin or Armini | Bible general Archive 3 | stjohn | 186781 | ||
Hi Doc, And thanks for the heads up, but thats were I was headed. certainly we need the Word, but we are blind to its meaning, without the Spirit. God bless. John ****************** It brings no solace to the unspiritual man to be told he is mistaken. To say he is self-deceived is nether to compliment him nor Christianity. He builds in all sincerity who raises his alter to the unknown God. He does not know God. With all his marvelous and complex correspondences, he is still one correspondence short. Henry Drummond. |
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