Alex-Light, I am sure Pilgrim will address you further mis-understandings of Scripture, but until then:<br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]To claim that God speaks to man [color:red]only through</font color=red> the written Word (which I assume you mean to be the Bible) is, well, absurd.</font><hr></blockquote><p> What you propose is heresy. What you assert is that God has a special truth for each individual in the world and that it may vary away from the very inspired Word of God. History supports what you are maintaining is some sort of spiritual relativism (sorry for the big word): that is, if a person asserts what is said to be from the Holy Spirit, though it be against the Scripture, it must be true. Thus, what you maintain is that there is no "one" absolute standard and thus deny the very foundation of God's inspired Word--God Himself. <br><br>Besides being unbiblical, your view is likewise self-defeating:<br><br><ul>1. If each man is "spiritually" the measure of all things (without regard for the Scripture), and I, being a spiritual man, believe that Alex-Light's view are false, then they are false. Thus, Alex_Light's views are useless. <br>2. If every man has his own "spiritual" truth (without regard for the Scripture), then why is Alex-Light posting anything, for he is not the Holy Spirit? Thus, Alex_Light's views are useless. <br><br><blockquote>[color:blue]Isa 55:8-9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.</blockquote></font color=blue>[/LIST] <blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]25 cent words like hermeneutic and exegesis sound good. But to most folks, they're just gibberish. "God will" and "God has" are words EVERYBODY understands.</font><hr></blockquote><p> Everyone understands "God's will," uhmmm? Ok, so tell us how many "wills" does God have?

Reformed and Always Reforming,