The never ending comparison and research could be a good thing, but without the Holy Spirit at which you seem to frown is it worth all of the trouble?I never say things I can't prove.
It is not Opinion; it is a Conclusion based on DECADES of never ending comparison and research, not pompous attituude.
Care nto PROVE your claim, without Cut-n-Pasting from an idiot church site?
Was not the apostle Paul a very learned man who has studied the scriptures with great teachers before he met Jesus and was filled with the Holy Ghost?
"I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day." Acts 22:3
He was seemingly a very good student in the scriptures as men see it, but he was not really very good at all. The "very good" is what God is and what He made men in the beginning. That first disobedience lost that very goodness for him and all men until Jesus and paid the price and the Holy Spirit became available. to whosoever will.
The apostle Paul[Saul] was still working with a very poor shadow of God's plan prior to the sacrifice of Jesus until he met Jesus on the road to Damascus. I was then made aware of how very blind he really was. He went on to Damascus to meet a man of God:
"And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.
And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.
And when he had received meat, he was strengthened. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus.
And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.
But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests? " Acts 9:17-21
Meeting Jesus and being filled with the Holy Ghost did for Saul/Paul what all of his education in the scriptures could not.