Right... but if we don't need teachers, and YOU assert that we don't... then we still don't need you for anything.
If God wants us to know this stuff, God can just tell us all directly, and we don't need you for anything at all.
You can just ignore my posts if they do not interest you.
And just what if...
what if I'm studying alone with no teacher... .and God shows me everything YOU are saying is FALSE?
What then?
I have every confidence that such would never happen, but for that to happen, we would still arrive at the truth, by default. God still wins.
Seems to me we have some real dilemmas here if nobody needs a teacher, and nobody's theology needs to be corroborated or tested.
Say what? I invite others to test what I say against the scriptures... by re-reading them in a new light... to see if it is so. But I suppose you had to throw in that concept to take the tangent you had chosen. Your stomping semantically over teachers to play the pope to my Galileo conveniently ignores the message to defend not looking. It is your right to think any way you want.
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If God wants us to know this stuff, God can just tell us all directly, and we don't need you for anything at all.
You can just ignore my posts if they do not interest you.
And just what if...
what if I'm studying alone with no teacher... .and God shows me everything YOU are saying is FALSE?
What then?
I have every confidence that such would never happen, but for that to happen, we would still arrive at the truth, by default. God still wins.
Seems to me we have some real dilemmas here if nobody needs a teacher, and nobody's theology needs to be corroborated or tested.
Say what? I invite others to test what I say against the scriptures... by re-reading them in a new light... to see if it is so. But I suppose you had to throw in that concept to take the tangent you had chosen. Your stomping semantically over teachers to play the pope to my Galileo conveniently ignores the message to defend not looking. It is your right to think any way you want.
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