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More Americans are now reading the Bible but fewer believe it’s 100% accurate: study

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I believe all scripture is truth. What that truth is can only be revealed through God's Spirit.

The Spirit can but each person may read something different. What spirit guides them?

It is truth and inspired by God. Accuracy may vary depending on the reader's spirit or , maybe, translations.

Your argument goes like this: I read the Book of Job, and the Holy Spirit gives me the understanding that it is accurate; you read the same book, and the Holy Spirit guides you to believe it's inaccurate. Someone else reads the Book of Isaiah, and the Holy Spirit leads them to think Isaiah was never a prophet, while another person reads the book and feels guided by the Holy Spirit to believe what the prophet Isaiah wrote about the birth of Jesus is true. Is this how the Holy Spirit guides each of us?
 
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Your argument goes like this: I read the Book of Job, and the Holy Spirit gives me the understanding that it is accurate; you read the same book, and the Holy Spirit guides you to believe it's inaccurate.
Nope. I've never said that scripture is inaccurate.
Someone else reads the Book of Isaiah, and the Holy Spirit leads them to think Isaiah was never a prophet, while another person reads the book and feels guided by the Holy Spirit to believe what the prophet Isaiah wrote about the birth of Jesus is true. Is this how the Holy Spirit guides each of us?
Nope but you demonstrate how one can read something and get totally inaccurate belief about what is written. What spirit did you read with?
 
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