> What I've noticed about people, who say they believe in God or follow
> Him
> but ignore scripture, is that what they really believe and follow is
> themselves with His will being what they would do if they were God.
> They
> don't know the Lord or they would know His voice and hear it in His
> Word.

> What doesn't help is a host of "pastors," "scholars," and skeptics
> who have
> taught them that His Word is simply the opinions of nice old men
> about God.
> Much of it is just plain stupid. Like the knave's talking about not
> reading
> it literally when it disgrees with him and taking it literally when
> he can
> twist the wording to seem to support him, like the "about to" in
> "about to
> come," a new way to split an infinitive. Have you ever seen anyone at
> anytime discussing whether any other work should be read literally?
> No, we
> simply read them and notice the figurative and symbolic as well as the
> literal statements. No one writes strictly literally (not even
> technical
> writers) or strictly figurative.

> I don't know if you've taken many literature courses, but when we
> read to
> see what the Author is saying, we are trying to get into his head to
> follow
> his thinking. When we read His Word as the work of the greatest
> Author, we
> begin to follow His thinking and it becomes obvious.

> There used to be a guy online John Tinnes, who began arguing why a
> given
> book of scripture didn't belong in scripture when it disagreed with
> him. We
> called him "Title Page John," because that is all he had left when he
> got
> done taking out the rest of the scriptures which supported the first
> ones he
> removed. Scripture confirms scripture, and when we hear His voice it
> reveals
> all He will do.

> God Bless You,

> Fred

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Growing-Deeper@googlegroups.com
>> [mailto:Growing-Deeper@googlegroups.com]On Behalf Of Vera Six
>> Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 10:55 AM
>> To: Growing-Deeper@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Only God is the Truth

>> I have come to meet people online who say they follow God, but they
>> obviously do not even know that the Bible is His Word. I have never
>> seen people demonstrate a bigger stupidity than theirs.
>> Five-year-old can do better. Do they really think that serious
>> people would buy into their obvious lies? I guess it is their
>> wickedness, I mean, people cannot really be so stupid, can they?
>> They seem to live in a kind of alien world, a world of lies, and it
>> seems that they were condemned to understand each other in that
>> language of lies and cannot get out of there anymore. I do not know
>> what was first, their lies to or about their neighbors, or their
>> lies about Scripture.

>> I have found out that many people are not really interested in Bible
>> study. They join Christian newsgroups for the lack of party time
>> elsewhere. They do not want to hear God's Word, just those Words that
>> fit into their own concept, yet they claim they would hear Jesus'
>> voice. That is funny somehow, is it not? Some have used their whole
>> lives to search the Bible for things they want to read out of it,
>> others have not even tried reading yet.

>> However, if the Bible was not God's Word, they would all be lost
>> anyway. They should make up their minds about it. If it is God's
>> Word, God is the only TRUTH. Some are close, but do not have Jesus.
>> Others are not even close but dancing around own herself. Some are
>> gnostics, and even Apostle Paul fought against false Christian
>> teachers who taught gnosticism already. Oh well, there is nothing
>> new under the sun. Vanity of vanities, and spitting into the wind.
>> God Bless You.

>> Vera