Yes, but God breathed. Of course, you may not believe that. If that's the case, then you can't expect those who do believe it to lend any credence to any interpretation you come up with.
In other words, even if “the only true interpretation of scripture does not come from self but from the Holy Spirit” it takes considerable chutzpah for you to set yourself, your clergy, and your sect up as arbiters for the rest of us as who was listening to the Holy Spirit and who wasn’t.
Since you pretty clearly stated that you are doing the interpreting yourself, it doesn't take any 'chutzpah' whatsoever. I'll take listening to the Holy Spirit over listening to you every time. It isn't me who is the 'arbiter' but the Holy Spirit, and he's already shown you are out on a limb with your 'interpretation'.
As it happens, I have had direct contact with the Holy Spirit, which I’ve documented in an audiobook. . .
Interesting then that you've only now bring this up after I point out that scripture tells us that the true interpretation comes from the Holy Spirit. Sorry, but I'd rather spend time studying scripture than listening to your audiobook.
MEGoody wrote: “Yes, but God breathed. Of course, you may not believe that. If that’s the case, then you can’t expect those who do believe it to lend any credence to any interpretation you come up with.”
Having experienced God’s breath personally and discovered in my own writing things I didn’t come to know or understand until after I wrote it, I’d say I’d qualify as a believer.
But that also means I know the limits and fallibility of being a scriptwriter on the receiving end.
“It isn’t me who is the ‘arbiter’ but the Holy Spirit, and he’s already shown you are out on a limb with your ‘interpretation’.”
Really? The Holy Spirit posted a reply to me in this discussion? What is the message number and the Holy Spirit’s FR User Name?
Oh, wait. You’re probably referring to some other human being such as yourself who has the temerity to substitute his own fallible interpretation of scripture for that of anyone who disagrees with your personal conclusions. What comes next, friend, for those who don’t accept the Gospel According to MEGoody — burning at the stake, stoning to death, or all the way to crucifixion?
Or maybe you’re a liberal and just want me shunned, tarred and feathered, or exposed in the stocks.
“’As it happens, I have had direct contact with the Holy Spirit, which I’ve documented in an audiobook. . .’
“Interesting then that you’ve only now bring this up after I point out that scripture tells us that the true interpretation comes from the Holy Spirit. Sorry, but I’d rather spend time studying scripture than listening to your audiobook.”
I’ve told anyone who will listen to me about my experience for at least ten years, my book has been available for close to four years, and I’ve offered it to readers of Free Republic like you at no charge several times before.
But I get you. No new prophets allowed. Let’s muzzle the voice of God and not allow the Holy Spirit to inspire anyone from the current generation. Close the patent office — everything’s already been invented. Mohammed was the last prophet. Nothing in the last 2,000 years has happened that might require a software update for the human condition.
You know what? You’ve made the Book into a graven image (printing, by the way, is by definition “engraved”) and worship it. What a brilliant way for the devil to make God’s children deaf to His Voice.
I’m not saying I got everything God told me right. I’m only human. But what would I be if God took the trouble to communicate with me and I kept it to myself?
Neil