Anonymous person, did you notice that I wrote to you in a series of paragraphs? There was a reason for that. I was trying to express complex thoughts that required more than a soundbite to express. I notice that in response, you divided it up into a series of tweets, and then responded with tweets of your own that ignored my context, and waffled from your original email.
The expression of complex thought requires more than a tweet (except for complex Presidential opinions, where a tweet is adequate, apparently, but I digress.)
I won't get into your complex confusion and intermingling of the three persons of the trinity, switching at will in your writings to whichever person you wanted, without regard to the original message, or your previous sentence. Let's look at just a few of your comments.
You are missing the forest for the trees. The point is that there is a huge difference in a dialog with a person and a supposed communication with a spirit, in which the spirit's only mode of communication is by somehow causing certain thoughts to occur in your mind. How would you ever know that another being was causing thoughts in your mind? One of the amazing thing of the mind is that thoughts arrived fully formed. When I write, the sentences just come fully formed, as though out of nowhere, and I never really know where they came from. Think of all that was involved in forming the sentence above. Something had to know the meaning of every English word there, be fully conversant in English grammar and spelling, and put that together. And yet I was not aware of any of the process of looking up the meaning of all those words and alternate words I could have used in that sentence. I just started thinking on the subject, and the sentence somehow came out. The brain works like that. No one part of the brain is in charge. But somehow, all the parts of the brain make their contributions, and somehow for each sentence a given sequence arises to the fore, and the words come out.
Now I think all these sentences in this post come from me. But could some come from a spirit inside that is also producing thoughts that come up inside my mind? If so, how would I know which thoughts were caused by a spirit?
That is why I say there is a huge difference between talking to a physical person in front of you, and having a claimed spirit speak in your mind.
But I suppose you will have a field day dividing this all up into tweets and making a flippant comment to each, while bypassing the purpose of that discussion, huh?
I find that very interesting. A person who imagines another spirit is inside him talking to him is in need of evaluation by a health care professional. Unless of course, that person he thinks he is hearing from is named Jesus or the Holy Spirit, then that is OK.
Sounds like special pleading to me.
You say this in response to my question, "How do you know which thoughts are your own and which come from the spirit of Jesus within you?" Aha. So you really have no way to differentiate a thought coming from the spirit or from your inner self. For I imagine that you sometimes have inner thoughts that are consistent with scripture. So when you have such thoughts, are they coming from you or from Jesus? You have given no way of knowing. In that case, how can you possibly say the Jesus or Holy Spirit inside you is a reliable source, if you never know for sure what they are saying?
When I showed you problems with relying on the gospels, you were quick to say that these were not your primary source. The Holy Spirit was. But when I question the Spirit, you are quick to say your recognition of this source isn't really reliable, and you need to look it up in the gospels.
You seem to be arguing in a circle.
Correct. Without more background information, you cannot know which side the Holy Spirit is on.
That seems to disqualify the Holy Spirit as a reliable source. If church A has a program, and the people pray and believe the Holy Spirit is leading them, but church B believe church A is teaching heresy, and the people in church B pray and believe the Holy Spirit is leading them to stop the false program of church A, then you have no way of knowing who is right unless you get the background information. The Holy Spirit will not give you the answer.
So why rely on the Holy Spirit as the primary source of information on whether the resurrection happened?
But both think they are hearing the Spirit, and their programs are in conflict. If one of those two sides is not hearing the Spirit correctly, but they think they are, then how can you have confidence that you are hearing the Spirit correctly?