Evidently, you must be one of the wise and intellectual ones that Jesus was speaking about at,
Luke 10:21, because you cannot be a babe, because your thinking is purely dereism, and you do not seem to be able to understand the Scriptures that I cited.
I don’t know how wise I am, but I do know that God gave me both an intellect and some good common sense. I suspect He intended that I use them both. I actually do understand the scriptures you cited. It appears I just don’t resort to twisting them to fit my own personal beliefs. And because I don’t agree with you as to how they should be interpreted you have jumped to the conclusion that you’re right and I’m wrong. You are, of course, entitled to your own opinions. You are not, however, entitled to present them as facts.
If you can possibly notice, I use Bible Scripture to show why I believe as I do, but I have not seen even one Bible Scripture cited by you. You seem to be spouting nonsense that someone told you, instead of researching the only place where a person can get Truth about Bible Doctrine.
That’s not what you did at all. You cited a few verses of scripture and told me how they should be understood. And on top of that, you had the nerve to tell me that I was “spouting nonsense that someone told [me].” And you obviously came to your conclusions as to the meaning of the verses you cited completely independently of your beloved “Watchtower,” right?
When you try to reason from your own mind, any person is stymied by Egocentric Predicament, because any person’s reasoning cannot possibly equal what the Bible teaches. What you do is called Doping Out an answer, which never equals Bible truth.
It is not possible for the Bible to mention all the millions of different questions, or problems, so the Bible gives Recursive Principles, that can be used to understand many different questions, that are not covered in Holy Scripture.
Wow! Lot’s of big words there! I’m impressed.
Where the Bible mentions another Gospel, it means any other Book or any other teaching that is not from God, and inspired by God.
Says who? When the Bible mentions another gospel, it means teachings other than those of Jesus Christ. The Bible itself contains four separate gospel accounts, four individual books (or “Books,” if you prefer, since you apparently see that word as requiring a capital letter), all of which have much in common in that they describe many of the same events. No two of them are exactly the same, though. Each one includes a few teachings that are not mentioned in the others. That does not mean that they are “different gospels.”
I hope I am wrong, but you seem to read a Scripture with Eisegesis, instead of Exegesis, or you are in the category of a Superficialist.
You certainly are into labels, aren’t you? Let’s move on to the topic at hand and dispense with the psychoanalysis.
If you were to reason as God does, as Paul states at
Galatians 1:6-9, you would understand that The Book of Mormon is in the class mentioned as Accursed, because no other information, that differs with the Bible is acceptable to God.
No, if I were to reason as you do, I would come to the same conclusions you have come to. So, what, exactly does Galatians 1:6-9 say? It says:
“I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.”
Mormons, like Jehovah’s Witnesses, believe that Paul’s predictions of a great apostasy did, in fact, come to fruition. We believe that false doctrines were starting to creep into the infant Church at a very early date. It was obviously happening, even as Paul wrote. You need not waste your time trying to convince me of this.
There is no other Book that is inspired by God, so any book that adds anything to what the Bible says is blasphemy, and is definitely not needed.
What? How on earth can you ascertain such a thing? Never once in the Bible did God say, “I’m done talking now.” When you dismiss, out of hand, the mere possibility that not all of God’s interactions with mankind are found exclusively in the Bible, you are in effect telling God, “Thanks, but no thanks. You had your turn. We’ve got our Bible. You have nothing more to tell us that could possibly be of use to us.”
I know the Jehovah’s Witnesses study the Bible inside and out. But has no one ever even told you how the Bible came to exist in the first place, and how vastly different today’s canon is than it was in the second century or the eighth century or the twelfth century? Do you have any idea at all how many “Books” are mentioned in the Bible and were clearly thought of by its writers as “scripture” but which are, in fact, completely absent from the Bible? Have you never stopped to consider the fact that it was “the Whore of Babylon,” the apostates that you are so insistent upon distancing yourself from who are responsible for preserving and transcribing the “Book” you believe to contain everything we need to know?
The Bible tells us that God knows what we need, and He has answered all our questions in His Holy Bible,
Matthew 6:8.
I almost wonder if this was a typo, as Matthew 6:8 says absolutely nothing about the Bible. It says, “Be not ye therefore like unto them [i.e. the heathens referred to in verse 7]: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.”
The Bible tells us all that it is the heart, that helps us to understand the Bible,
Matthew 13:13-15, and that out of the heart we also get all sorts of corrupt reasonings,
Mark 7:21-23,
Jeremiah 17:9.
If I understand you correctly here, you are saying that it is with our hearts that we can understand the Bible, but that we can also be misled by what we believe our hearts are telling us. I couldn’t agree more.
The only way anyone can understand the Bible correctly, is one who is willing to change their thinking, when they realize that they have the wrong understanding. Humble prayer is the way to receive the HolySpirit, that searches into even the deep things of God, 1Corinthians 2:10,
Romans 12:2, 1Thessalonians 5:21.
I concur completely. God reveals truth to us by the Spirit. And when we receive His truth, we must embrace it and allow it to transform us, enabling us to know what is good in God’s eyes.
All that we teach MUST based on Bible truth, or we are enemies of God,
Romans 5:8-11…
Roman 5:8-11 doesn’t say that at all! Romans 5:8-11 says:
“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.”
And John 4:23-24 says:
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Are you serious? Those passages speak specifically of Jesus Christ’s atoning sacrifice on our behalf. It teaches that we may be reconciled to God through Christ’s Atonement and find joy in Him, and of worshipping God in spirit and truth. It doesn’t even remotely say what you are claiming it says!
…for God says that He will destroy all who do not LOVE the TRUTH, 2Thessalonians 2:8-14.
I’d agree with that. At least that’s the essence of that passage. You will be happy to know, though, that I do very deeply love the truth, and do not for one split second have any doubts about my relationship with my Savior or with my Father in Heaven.
The Bible warns about being a teacher, unless you are sure you know what the truth is,
James 3:1, 2Peter 3:15,16.[/quote]It may well do, but it centainly doesn’t in these passages.