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You have listed the writings of Paul, not the words of Christ. The writings of Paul are not REVELATION, they are commentary.
I will follow the words of the Gospel of John, since it contains directly the words of Christ while He bestrode the earth. The words of the Revelation of St. John are not Gospel, nor are they the actual words of Christ. Again it is simply commentary not Revelation.
Quite simply John was speaking of HIS Gospel, which was written long before the Revelation of St. John.
To put John 5:47 in context:
36"I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the very work that the Father has given me to finish, and which I am doing, testifies that the Father has sent me. 37And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form, 38nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent. 39You diligently study[
c] the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, 40yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
41"I do not accept praise from men, 42but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts. 43I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. 44How can you believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God[
d]? 45"But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set. 46If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. 47But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?"
I hate single verse citations, they are never revealing and used more by pundits to obfuscate than illuminate.
Regards,
Scott
Scott ,to say that the words of Paul and John are merely commentary says so much about your understanding of Jesus,the Holy Spirit and any of scripture.
You appear to have a intellectual conception of scripture and can quote excellent verses,but it seems to me that your spiritual eyes are darkened as to what how these man wrote and interpreted scripture.
If you don't have the Holy Spirit dwelling within you you are in the dark regarding the deep things of God
It is imperative you read these,and could you explain to me your interpretation of what Paul is saying:
1Cr 2:1And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the *testimony of God.
2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
4 And my speech and my preaching
were not with persuasive words of *human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
5 that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
6 However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden
wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory,
8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But as it is written:
"Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him."*
10 But God has revealed
them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
13 These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the *Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know
them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is
rightly judged by no one.
16 For
"who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?"* But we have the mind of Christ.
Well with all due respect as a believer like Paul we have the same Spirit that Jesus released when He went to be with the Father.
That is the Spirit who will guide us in to all truth
Jhn 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of
truth, is come, he will
guide you into all
truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, [that] shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
Jesus speaks to Christians through the Holy Spirit, "key word"
So when Paul speaks as in any of the writers of scripture ,Jesus is speaking through that same Spirit, as hard as that is for those outside the born again conversion experience to comprehend and believe and it may even be taken as an insult to one's intelligence,but no insult intended.
Jhn 14:17[Even] the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
As you probably already know those who wrote the word, were inspired or led by the Spirit.
But if one does not have the Spirit of the living God dwelling within them they can only give intellectual opinion of scripture and Paul calls that the natural man as I stated in 1Cor 2: 14
