The Holy Spirit doesn't speak thus he is already the Platonic Ideal for a woman.
Yes I agree, Christ and his apostles taught a minimalist faith Anyone inspired by love of God must be curious to inquire about the mysteries of his natue but it is dangerous to say the resolution of these mysteries is necessary to follow Christ
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It is necessary to be LIKE Christ and Like God for how can we act like that which we do not know? The scripture does not list for us in detail what either the Father, the Christ, or the Holy Spirit are like and how we are to be like them.
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We can only determine what they were like from their Words and Deeds which are revealed to us.
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Though the Psalms do give us many of the attributes of Christ and of the Father, they are only a small portion of scripture.
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And sola scriptura means sola scriptura. Don't Babylon out on us here!
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If sola scriptura was truly what you believed you would not even bother to discuss scripture or participate in these discussions and you would only stick to the text.
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I still think there is a fact of the matter about questions ignored or discussed obscurely in Scripture
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For example, what is the connection between the clan of Terah and the Mitanni? Irrelevant to salvation, inadmissible in Christian dogma, but still a very interesting question
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Likewise there are ethical questions which are touched on in the NT, but Jesus is the Christ, not a philosophy professor; trying to work out implications is part of ethics but not necessary to faith
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No, but the quest for this knowledge should be a product of your Faith. Both a thirst for scripture and what lies beyond scripture should exist in the Heart of a Christian who has the gift of Understanding.
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definitely. But gifts are as the talents; they impose responsibilities on the faithful but they are not themselves elements of faith
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Everyone of the Church has different gifts to use to edify the whole church. Without those gifts one must question the presence of their faith much like one who claims Christ but does not exhibit the fruits of the spirit.
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