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NASB | Matthew 11:28 ¶ "Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 11:28 ¶ "Come to Me, all who are weary and heavily burdened [by religious rituals that provide no peace], and I will give you rest [refreshing your souls with salvation]. |
Subject: Paul had problems? No one acts good? |
Bible Note: Dear Atdcross, You wrote, "...unless the persons you mentioned interpreted the Bible for '2,000 years of accumulated understanding' under the inspiration of the Spirit, I am not obligated to agree with them." Except for the terms of use for this forum, you are under no obligation whatsoever. :-) Presumably, though, you would want to be taken seriously. That's why I encourage your further explanation. You say that you will only agree with those who interpret the Bible "under the inspiration of the Spirit." I am compelled to ask, how do you know if they are inspired by the Spirit? (Sometimes I've heard people say this when what they really mean is "if I agree with him then he's inspired by the Spirit.") But more to the point, only the writers of the Bible itself were inspired by the Holy Spirit. Anyone since then has, at best, had the Scriptures illumined to them by the Holy Spirit. After all, the Word cannot be fully or rightly understood without this divine enablement. I can give you a full list of ways in which false teachers can be identified. I believe I've posted on this in the past. One way is by studying the doctrines that they hold. For example, someone espousing an erroneous doctrine would not be doing so under the auspices of the Holy Spirit. On the other hand, the many people who have studied the Scriptures over the last couple thousand years are, after all, only human. They can and have made mistakes. Typically, those on whom you can depend have been acknowledged by a wide variety of Christians over a significant period of time as being worthy of attention. In Him, Doc PS If I am not mistaken, James Coffman is a proponent of the doctrine of baptismal regeneration and other Campbellite teachings. |