Theological debates and commentary don't determine what the actual written Word of God says.
Agreed. The Scriptures interpret themselves.
2 Timothy 3:16-17
New International Version
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
You can be thoroughly equipped for everything you need in life from the bible. It teaches us everything we need to know, and we learn how to read it and respond to it by studying it daily, discussing it, and thinking through the issues.
Which is what I'm trying to do here rather than have you just rely on your feelings. Nowhere above does it say "Just read this book and you'll FEEL what it says!" It talks about intellectual properties of God's word, that it will teach, rebuke, correct, train.
These are thinking, application, working words - not passively letting the vibe of it come up to you from your own subjective feelings and calling it the "Holy Spirit".
Hey, if you don't want to do the work because it's hard, then don't bother commenting here. But if you're actually prepared to discuss the last 2000 years of eschatological thinking, and are prepared to GET the teaching and rebuking and correcting and training in righteousness the bible requires, them I'm up for a chat.
Even your... lack of understanding in it is shown by your mocking The Holy Spirit. Why should He show you anything with that kind of attitude?
The Reformers took the church out of centuries of apostacy and being subject to the pretended authority of the Pope and church tradition by reminding us of verses like 2 Timothy 3:16 above. Basically, the situation was back to front. The Catholic church thought it was the authority over scripture, but Sola Scriptura takes us back to scripture being the authority over the church.
Now what the Charismatic church has done is similar to the Catholic church, but instead of church tradition being the supreme authority over scripture, the Holy Spirit as 'felt' or experienced in their lives becomes the supreme authority over scripture.
But it is not church teaching, scholarship, reason, tradition,
or even personal experience that should be the authority in our lives: but scripture itself. Now, we can still use these things, like catechisms, confessions of faith, etc, but we need to investigate whether these things match up to what we see in scripture.
For example, I have friends at Matthias Media, a publishing house associated with St Matthias Anglican church in Sydney, Australia. They are evangelical, bible believing publishers that try to help equip churches to submit themselves to the word of God.
How do they sum up all this?
4. The authority and sufficiency of the God-breathed Scriptures for gospel truth and life.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is revealed and explained in the writings of the Old and New Testaments. All the words of the Bible are God's words. They are not only true, reliable and authoritative, but God's sufficient means for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training his people in every age. Whatever else it may entail, or however it may be supported, all Christian evangelism and ministry centre on the prayerful speaking of the Bible's truth.
Accordingly, we refute any view that diminishes the Bible's authority, such as those who place the Bible under the authority of the Church or scholarship. We also oppose the claim that sections of Scripture are erroneous (e.g. in rejecting the bodily resurrection of Christ) or no longer relevant (e.g. in denying the continuing validity of biblical gender distinctions or the Bible's teachings on sexual morality). We also stand opposed to any view that rejects the Bible's sufficiency by claiming access to new or fresh revelation—whether by ecstatic experience, words of knowledge, meditative contemplation, church councils or liturgical ritual.
Mission and Convictions
You might as well treat His Word like some fantasy novel without The Holy Spirit as Guide in it.
If you're going to bypass rational discussion of the Scriptures that are our final authority, and basically appeal to YOUR own gut feelings, then I'm done. Your gut feelings or the "Holy Spirit" as you call them are not MY final authority - Scripture is. The Holy Spirit regenerating my heart according to and through his living word. Not bypassing my rational mind, but by conforming my rational mind to his word.
Basically, if you want to take YOUR experience of the Holy Spirit (your own gut feelings) as some kind of extra authority over and above or against Scripture, I must disagree. I can only parody that position by saying my gut feelings disagree with yours. And again, where are we at the end of that?