Lightseeker
Hi Dee
Who said the bible is the ‘closed’ word of God?….Man did…not scripture!
think you got 'man' and 'scripture' in your statement the wrong way round.
uummm...I believe God did mean that His mind doesn't change, He knew the end from the beginning, so why wait till now to add anything else?
Have you ever heard the expression, 'there is nothing new under the sun' ? Well, take out all the physical stuff, [since God is Spirit and we are to match spirit with spirit] then tell me exactly what
has changed.
Mal 3:6 "For I am the LORD, I change not;..."
Rev. 1:8 "
I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord,
which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty
Do you believe we have prophets today? Are they only supposed to quote 2,000+ yr. old scripture? And from two scriptural sources to boot if revealing the truth concerning old/new doctrine?
No, yes and absolutely.
Mar 13:6 For many shall come in my name saying, [that] I [Jesus] am Christ; and [they] shall deceive many.
Mat 24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
Hold on though, God has a lot more to say on this subject.
Eze 13:3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
Eze 13:4 O Israel,
thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. Eze 13:6 They have seen
vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith:
and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.
Eze 13:7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it;
albeit I have not spoken?
Eze 13: 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD.
Eze 13:9 And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies:
they shall not be in the assembly of my people,
neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel;
and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.2Pe 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation. To me this verse is saying that the person who receives the personal inspiration from God to write scripture, doesn’t necessarily have the total understanding to preach his interpretation of that scripture
Dee, this is not right. If you look at strong's definition of the words 'of any private' you may see what this scripture is really saying:
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ἴδιος
idios
id'-ee-os
pertaining to self, that is, one's own; by implication private or separate:
This isn't talking about an idividual reading the scripture who may interpret it wrong [which is guaranteed to happen in the carnal minds of man] It's telling us that no
scripture, on it's own, interprets itself. So, that was why it needs to be:
2 Cori 13:1 "... In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established."
Do you honestly think God would leave his word open to such misinterpretations of mere
men? I don't. He has it watertight, book-ended between these two scriptures.
And what about this one?
Mat 18:20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Think of it this way:
Q: What are the
scriptures? A: They are the inspired
Word of God
Q:What is another name for the
Word? Answer:
Jesus.
Q:What else is
Jesus? He is the
truth [amongst other things]
Q:So where did He say He was? A:
In the midst of them!
This is confirmation scripture that the truth of the Word is in the presence [midst]of two or three witnesses [scriptures] There are loads of scriptures that back up my wee questions/answers too, but if I spend all day looking for them and listing them, will it become any clearer than it should be already?
Angie