We don't "approach the Bible seeking God in humility" we approach (Jesus Christ) the King of kings and Lord of lords in humility!!
The OP is about understanding the Bible.
Of course the way to God is to first pray to God, which is just talking to God as I said, in humility, but then will he answer you audibly with a teaching of 138k words? No, so we must seek God through His word - as He purposed. It is His message to us. Faith comes by the WORD. (Romas 10:17) Jesus of course is the Word, the exact expression and illumination of God . Before the printed Bible, many would just have to hear His words preached.
Is 9:6 For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us;
And the government will rest on His shoulders;
And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
And that is all true of Jesus. The Holy Spirit counsels and guides us no differently.
People keep making it about going to the Bible instead of going before the Lord!!
Well it is the way to knowing about Jesus.
Jn 5:39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.
He was speaking to the Pharisees and unbelieving Jews. They denied Him.
And the weird thing is that the Bible clearly explains all this!!! So do people keep writing things like "You approach the Bible seeking god in humility"???
Well when Jesus says come to Me as children, He means in humility. Prayer alone on an island with no Bible will have to do and God will guide you, but you won't get to know Him as well - don't you think? Without the word, people came up with false religions, worshiping animals, false gods. The Indians in America did not have the Bible prior to the Pilgrams and so who did pray to? The great Eagle in the Sky, the Wind, spirits of many kinds. God knew they were confused, so He sent men to share the Bible with them.
We need to approach God in humility, but they tell themselves the Bible will explain all things to them, and that when the Bible clearly explains that Jesus Christ is Lord and He will explain things to them via His Holy Spirit who does not speak on His own initiative but only take the words of God which belong to Jesus Christ and gives them to you.
The Bible is sufficient. It is a supernatural message system from God to mankind.
So the Wonderful Counselor is not the Holy Spirit but is Jesus Christ, the child born to us and given to us!!!
Jesus is called a wonderful counselor. He also said that He would pray that the Father would send "another Helper, the Counselor", Whom would live in you and be with you forever.
Maybe I am missing something, but it seems like you are saying the answer to that same question from the spirit you are hearing from is "I am the Holy Spirit." That doesn't seem like it matches up with what is actually in the Bible?
Maybe you are missing something: The Bible has many references to the Holy Spirit, more about Jesus, but nevertheless ...:
Here are a few passages:
"But you shall
receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and
you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Acts 1:8
"So when they did not agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had said one word:
The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers, saying, ‘Go to this people and say: Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand; And seeing you will see, and not perceive;' " Acts 28:25-26
" I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry.
He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire." Matt.3:11
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but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation” Mark 3:29
"And I will pray the Father, and
He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—
the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you." John 14:16-17
“But when
the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me." John 15:26
"Nevertheless I tell you the truth.
It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:" John 16:7-8
"However, when
He, the Spirit of truth, has come,
He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.
He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you." John 16:13-15
"In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed,
you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise," Eph. 1:13
"Now hope does not disappoint, because the
love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us." Rom. 5:5
"Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but
the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God." Rom. 8:26-27
"Now I beg you, brethren,
through the Lord Jesus Christ,
and through the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in prayers to God for me," Rom. 15:30
" But the
fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. Gal. 5:22-23
"The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life." Job 33:4
"And such were some of you. But you were
washed, but you were
sanctified, but you were
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and
by the Spirit of our God." 1 Cor. 6:11
"for
prophecy never
came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved
by the Holy Spirit." 2 Peter 1:21
" Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any
fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, 2 fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind." Phi. 2:1-2
" And you became followers of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with
joy of the Holy Spirit," 1 Thes. 1:6
So to sum it up: The Holy Spirit is God, Who lives in us, and teaches, guides counsels, leads, gives truth, hears, speaks, is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent, comforts us, loves us, bears witness to Christ and glorifies Him, is wise, gives gifts, baptizes us, makes promises, fellowhsips with us, sancrifies us, justifies us, convicts us of sin and edifies us. I have left much out, but if you can think of anything else God does for us, add that to the list.