You feel the Holy Spirit is telling you the Bible is God’s Word
You feel in your heart that the Holy Spirit is confirming that the Bible is God’s Word and it can be trusted despite reasons for thinking differently. It just feels right.
That’s nice. I feel like my heart is telling me to seek truth within the Bible and to question it and put it to the test, which resulted in this essay. Where does that leave us? To quote Paul in 1 Thessalonians 5.19-22: "Do not quench the Spirit; do not despise prophetic utterances. But exam everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; abstain from every form of evil." So, according to the "Word of God," if we are to test the Spirit, and we use the Spirit as a reason to give the Bible authority, then we must test the Bible's authority. This is what I am doing... and I think it falls short of the title "Word of God" for reasons stated in Part 1. At any rate, if one is to take this verse seriously, simply saying one believes the Bible to be the Word of God because one feels the Spirit giving it credit is inappropriate to the very nature of the supposed "Word of God," unless there is some testing to back it up.
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