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The way that I read my Bible, is that I read each book or epistle from beginning to end; and let the Holy Spirit speak to me. Do you ask the Holy Spirit to speak to you whenever you read? If He does, you can be certain that He is going to cause certain verses to jump out at you while you are...

How is that a contradiction? I really wish that He would break down the door to your heart and invade your life; however, I know that it is not in His nature to do so. Act 7:51, Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do...

The context does not contradict my interpretation.

Again, they are not saved by an act of the will when they receive Christ. They are saved by the fact that the Holy Spirit takes residence in their heart. They are born of God as the result of receiving Christ. If Christ were not knocking on the door of their heart, their opening the door...

Concerning John 1:12-13, that the person is not born of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God, does not nullify the fact that He gives the right to become children of God to as many as receive Him. A man cannot will himself to be saved, is what this is...

John 1:12 plainly teaches that He gives the right to become the children of God to those who receive Him. In other words, if they don't receive Him, they don't have the power to become sons of God. Therefore receiving comes first. Jhn 15:20, Remember the word that I said unto you, The...

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You are basically asking the impossible. If you did not do it, then there would not be any example of that.

God has given the Holy Spirit to them that obey Him, Acts of the Apostles 5:32. Anyone who has the Holy Ghost can take these liberties. Of course, if the interpretation contradicts the plain teaching of other scripture, it can certainly be subjected to scrutiny. But as with comparing...

If you say so... I don't need to keep arguing with you... If you have the assurance that what you are doing isn't necromancy, then more power to you. Every servant, to His own Master, stands or falls.

If I read it in the 1st century A.D., I do not need a Strong's definition to interpret the verse. It stands on its own as it exists in the original Greek. Yes. Consider that Matthew, under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, took Hosea 11:1 out of its original context in Matthew 2:15, saying...

Believe what you want to. You have been warned however.

My friend, are you trying to contend for the idea that all scripture is not inspired of the Lord? I was aware that it was James the brother of Jesus. However, was he not a witness of the resurrection of Christ; and also with them from the beginning?

I didn't say that other scripture can't. I was merely using the Strong's to support my point that every singular verse stands on its own, in defense of your attack on that statement.

Your point? Do we not go to the Strong's to look further into what it says in the original?

You did not show that at all. I showed you how your reasoning was flawed, although you may not have seen it due to spiritual blindness.

I have shown that in the original autograph, the verse in question stands on its own as a bastion of spiritual truth.

Back to square one. The Father drawing someone to Jesus, and the Father giving someone to Jesus, are two different things. When the Father draws a man to Christ, he is enabled to make an unhindered decision either for or against Christ. If that person chooses Christ, then the Father gives...

Is it not the Greek (the original autograph) that matters most? And of course, I have said that scripture interprets scripture.

No, you did not.