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Typical fundie with your all-or-nothing nonsense. I believe the Bible CONTAINS inspirations from God INTERPRETED by fallible, ignorant, barbaric, and superstitious men. I also believe Jesus described in detail and unambiguously demonstrated the Spirit of God that we must apply to discern what is the truth from human corruption. Fundies do not bother to test the Spirit of anything as Jesus taught. They blindly accept everything using the "doctrine of demons" that it is ALL God's word.
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That simply is not true. Not only do we test what someone says, we ask them to show us. If it is not all God's word, how do you determine what is and what is not? IMO the "doctrine of demons" is that not all of the Bible is God's word.
The reason you do NOT test the Spirit of anything in the Bible is because you BLINDLY accept everything in it. What are the characteristics of the Spirit that you use to decide if something is compatible or consistent with the Spirit????? You don't even know what they are or you wouldn't ask me to tell you how we determine what is and is not God's word.
Jesus described in detail the characteristics of the Spirit that we should use to test the Spirit of everything. We compare each verse with those characteristics and if it is NOT compatible, it is NOT from God or Jesus.
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Whee can I find these details?
This is how I know that you do NOT know the Spirit. You can't even describe the characteristics of the Spirit or where to find them in the Bible. That is how I know you test the Spirit of nothing. You can't if you do not know what characteristics are of the Spirit and what are not. Read 1 Cor 13, Galatians 5 and the Sermon on the Mount for starter details.
They argue the Bible is foolishness, and they speak from personal experience, but the Bible clarifies it is NOT foolishness to believers. This explains why they say what they say. It is foolishness to them.
"the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God"
It is amusing that they verify the accuracy of the 'Bible and don't even know it.
Matthew 5:43-48 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Matthew 6:24-25 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Mark 12:28-30 And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
John 14:21-24 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.
John 15:9-17 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
People like you are called cafeteria Christians, i am sure you cn figure out what he means.
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Folks, you can't make this stuff up! 
Is that the case with other scripture passages? 
