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1 | Calvin or Armini | Bible general Archive 3 | BradK | 186715 | ||
Hello God's elect, Despite the tone of your question, your name seems to imply being a Calvinist:-) Here are some insights on the matter from C.H. Spurgeon- "The Ethiopian eunuch might have received divine illumination, and doubtless did receive it, but still, when asked whether he understood the Scripture which he read, he replied, “How can I unless some man shall guide me?” The guiding man is needed still. Divines who have studied the Scriptures have left us great stores of holy thought which we do well to use. Their expositions can never be a substitute for our own meditations, but as water poured down a dry pump often sets it to work to bring up water of its own, so suggestive reading sets the mind in motion on its own account." "It seems odd, that certain men who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves, should think so little of what he has revealed to others." Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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2 | Calvin or Armini | Bible general Archive 3 | Lookn4ward2Heavn | 186769 | ||
I like that Spurgeon quote, especially, "The guiding man is needed still...Their exposition can never be a substitute for our own meditations..." I think it would be correct to add that, as all men are fallible and no system of doctrine is Spirit-inspired and 100 per-cent error free, we must not base our faith on the teachings of others but on what God reveals personally to each of us as we meditate and study the Bible. It seems that an important purpose of Bible study is to own by faith the things God has spoken to us; to believe, not because someone taught it to us but because we have experienced the revelation of its truthfulness (John 4:41-42). I would think that as great in wisdom and exposition a Christian may be, only what God has confirmed to us as true need be believed. |
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3 | 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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4 | 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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5 | 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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