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I never encountered "unregulated exegesis" in my post-graduate study of it. But I did learn the difference between exegesis and eisegesis. Do you know the difference?
No it's not. You can't dismiss human fallibility with a wave of the hand. There are 100 billion souls at stake here - hence no margin for error. Only Direct Revelation offers real hope of infallible information from God.
Unregulated exegesis and unregulated charismata are both chaotic. So?
The actual fact is that the Bible is the sole record of direct revelation from God through direct inspiration of the Holy Spirit. It is God's complete direct revelation to mankind, and we have the written record of it in the Bible. Anything that purports to be direct revelation that has not already been revealed in any of the 66 books of the Bible is false and does not come from the Holy Spirit, no matter how certain anyone feels about the revelation they are receiving.
Um...that's not a clear extrapolation of what was posted.
Yes. To deny the potency of Direct Revelation would count as blasphemy - in fact it potentially undermines the canonicity of the texts. If Direct Revelation is categorically deemed unreliable, then the texts produced by it are equally unreliable.
The Word is beyond our ability to fully appreciate as we currently exist. When Christ has opened my eyes and ears to The Word, I’ve found it to be impossible to hold onto It’s depth. I’ve been Blessed to understand some parts of Scripture enough to know that it’s more than I can retain. The miracle of having your eyes opened and being illuminated is a tremendous Blessing. The Ancient Greek definition of apocalypse is what actually happens.
Reiterating your position doesn't make it so. Furthermore Direct Revelation isn't "new revelation" - that's actually an oxymoron because every revelation post-Adam has been further clarification of the already-revealed. Not sure why you feel the need to rebut an oxymoron. You might want to argue something relevant to the debate.
Post 142 alleges a contradiction in Sola Scriptura that its proponents cannot resolve.
You do realize, don't you, that Scripture is babe's milk? It's not solid food. In my 16-point rebuttal of Sola Scriptura, point 14 links to my posting where I surface Paul's emphasis in 1Corinthians on the absolute primacy of prophecy - and Paul uses solid food as ONE of his supporting points (he has several).
Well, you are going on about "man's tainted interpretation"; and I am saying that you are not talking about exegesis, but eisegesis.
Where did you get that from? His reference to them being babes was concerning their division into factions depending on their favourite preacher! Nothing to do with the way they viewed the Scriptures. Also, he was comparing the use of prophecy and that of tongues in the public church meetings. He never once stated that prophecy took priority over the Scriptures.
Paul never said anything of the sort about the maturity of prophets.
This is a blatant misquoting and misuse of Scripture to try and prove your point. Your interpretation of 1 Corinthians is a good example of "man's tainted interpretation" of Scripture, and it looks like you have shot yourself in the foot!
What you are saying is that the Holy Spirit is working in conjunction to what He has already said in the Biblical record.
Of course, the Bible is written in clear literal text so that it can be understood at face value rather than trying to gain some "deeper" more "spiritual" meaning from it. The real Spiritual meaning is clearly set out in the literal text which doesn't need interpreting at all. It just needs to be believed at face value.
