I read and quote scripture.
Can any of you respond to my post telling you why it is not necessary, and why having God teach him or her the only way one can come to know God?
By the way scripture tells us only God can bring one to know God.
(1 Corinthians 2:10-16) “These are the very things that God has revealed to us through the Spirit, for the Spirit reaches the depts. Of everything, even the depths of God. After all, the depths of a man can only be known by his own spirit, not by any other man, and in the same way the depths of God can only be known by the Spirit of God.---------“
Jesus told us that he would call his people out by name, and they would recognize his voice and follow no other.
The fruit that comes from God teaching one is good. One does not need the written Word of God to know if what he or she is being taught is producing good fruit or not.
Jesus teaches love, and if one sins he or she is not loving God, no his or her brother/neighbor. So when it is God teaching someone he or she will not sin.
Do you know of anyone who has stopped sinning because they were reading the bible?
It is easy for people to ignore the written Word of God, but when Jesus/Holy Spirit teaches him or her that is very hard to ignore.
People who read the bible on the most part ignore the following scripture.
(Matthew 7:21) “It is not those who say to me, ‘Lord, Lord’, who will enter the kingdom of Heaven but the person who does the will of My Father in Heaven. When the day comes many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, cast out demons in your name, work many miracles in your name?’ Then I shall tell them to their faces: I have never known you; away from me, you evil men!”
(John 14: 23) “Anyone who loves me will keep my word and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him and make a home in him.”
(John 14:21) “Anybody who receives my commandments and keeps them will be one who loves me; and anybody who loves me will be loved by My Father, and I shall love him and show myself to him.”
(1 John 3:9-10) “No one who has been begotten by God sins; because God’s seed remains inside him, he cannot sin when he has been begotten by God. In this way we distinguish the children of God from the children of the devil: anybody not living a holy life and not loving his brother is no child of God’s.”
Telling someone who thinks they know God by reading the bible that a born again Christian/one begotten by God, can’t sin is almost always ignored.
I believe you all don’t care to respond to this post.
Remember if you still sin then you are of the devil. The devil does not allow God to teach him either. I bet though the devil know every word of the bible.
(1 John 3:8) “Whoever lives sinfully belongs to the devil, since the
devilhas been a sinner from the beginning. This was the purpose of the appearing of the Son of God, to undo the work of the devil.”