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One of their main reasoning behind this is the faulty interpretation of Pauls words in Timothy 3: 16,17 "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable fordoctrine, for reproof for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works."
For wait a minute, Paul wasn't saying the letter he was writing to Timothy, was scripture. Paul was surely referring to the scriptures of the Old Testament ...... the direct words of the Lord through His prophets. Paul wasn't writing to Timothy as if it was THUS SAITH THE LORD, Paul was just stating that those words that were given in the Spirit by the Lord, are SCRIPTURES and these RED LETTER direct prophecies are given by inspiration of God. Paul was not saying, all his words, that were written to the babe churches were the absolute direct words of God and direct THUS SAITH THE LORD PROPHECY. And yet church Christians hang on every word that has ever come out of Paul's mouth, as if each word and phrase was the direct words of the Lord. It just isn't so, as even the apostle Paul would admit and did admit.
Why, because many of the things Paul wrote about were in direct opposition to what the Lord stated through his prophets. (SEE Paul's Dress Code ) For similarly when Paul wrote his notoriously worshipped 1 Corinthians 7 opinions about women, these opinions of Paul just shouldn't be taken as SCRIPTURE. They weren't, they were only his opinion, as even Paul himself said..
1 Corinthians 7:6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
O.K. So some parts of the 66 Books of the Bible are not direct Red Letter WORDS of the Lord through His prophets or spoken by the Lord during His Life. We just can;t equate the Lamentations with the Book of John and the words that Jesus literally spoke. They are not of the same importance. There are historical books, poetry books, letters between believer's books and prophecy books with direct prophecy. All are scriptural and well worth reading, but the Lord's WORDS are the most important to know and understand. These show his overall PRINCIPLES.
Because when you understand the Lord's precepts or oprinciples as talked about by isaiah and so many others, then you will have a standard on which to base all other words that you hear and read. For not all the Lord's words He spoke while here, were written down. Jhn 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.Amen.
The Lord said sooo much more. The Bible of 66 books is just the BASIC introductory text, to get us going to connect up with Him so we are able to search and seek out MORE. The Lord hasn't stopped speaking as the church people believe, because prophecy, the Lord's has said He will be speaking to us through His Spirit in the Last Days. he will have to speak to us, personnally just to lead and guide us through the Hell that is coming. We won't be able to just trust in written words, but have to be able to receive the living words of the Lord even while on the the run. We have to be able to hear personally and individually to our King. Jhn 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, (s)he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
But the church people deny that the Lord is still speaking and will speak to us personnally. They for the most part feel all prophecy has been fulfilled and hence we have no need of hearing from the Lord. They being afraid of the final warning in the Book of Revelation which stated that..
Rev 22:18-19 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things,God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
So they erroneously think, the Lord has stopped speaking and if anyone gets more detailed prophecy from the Lord they are violating this warning of Revelation. Mind you at the same time they are taking from that very book by not believeing it, and subtracting from its words by not believeing in it. They are literally petrified in hearing from the Lord, and therefore villy will accuse anyone that prophesies apparrent new scriptures, even if those prophecies fill in details we need to know in the Latter Days
This being a given, because we not daniel or John the Revelater are going to have to go through them, and we have to fulfill what all the prophets have written about, including ....Joel 2:28-29 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
This we can NOT do, unless we get new living scriptures straight from the Lord. We can test them by comparing what is prophesied with all other scriptures and the Lord's PRINCIPLES, but the Lord does have to speak to us now and in the future. Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth hissecret unto his servants the prophets.
And for the Lord to reveal His secrets to us, He has to give us new scriptures, new words as we go along. For knowing what the Lord has said, we can discern with His Spirit what He is saying to us, and even what He said through other of his prophets and authors in the past. We can read the old accepted Bible that included the Apocrypha without condemnation, if we have faith and discernment. We can find out that many of its Books are complimentary and confirming to what the other prophets have spoken like 2 Esdras 2. WE can read great true stories and very spiritual books like Tobit and the Book of Enock, so quoted in normal scriptures.
We don;t have to be fearful of reading newspapers, magazines, or library, or science books because the Lord can tell us if there are truths within and whether or not they connect up with all His other truths. As we won't limit the Holy Spirit to speaking only through what has already be written.For there has been a few deletions like the famous Missing Passages of the Book of Mark, and there has been subtle changes like making the Holy Spirit masculine rather than its feminine origin in ancient scriptures. But we can discern what is TRUTH, and what is scripture and what is important.It is our responsibility so that we won't superficially and self righteously say, 'I ONLY believe scriptures in the Bible' For when most say that, it is an indication that they have been trained into looking backwards and not forwards. This we can not do, as we have to go beyond the past, and walk with our Lord into the future.