I appreciate you. I really do. I think you have a fine mind for discerning and learning. Unfortunately, it is not disciplined enough by scripture.
When every word you speak, is confirmed by Scripture, then your words will be from the mouth of God every time.
Without Scripture to prove our thoughts, then our spiritual understanding gets sloppy at best, and diving into a pit at worst.
Is 6:10 “Render the hearts of this people insensitive, Their ears dull, And their eyes dim,
Otherwise they might see with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their hearts, And return and be healed.”
Mat 13:15 FOR THE HEART OF THIS PEOPLE HAS BECOME DULL, WITH THEIR EARS THEY SCARCELY HEAR,
AND THEY HAVE CLOSED THEIR EYES, OTHERWISE THEY WOULD SEE WITH THEIR EYES,
HEAR WITH THEIR EARS, AND UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART AND RETURN, AND I WOULD HEAL THEM.'
Everything you write shows that with your ears you scarcely hear!!!
Let's take a look at the things you wrote - they all show this problem - so I will take a few:
If the Scriptures are not necessary to know good from evil, then you are teaching how to be as gods, knowing good and evil for yourself by your own spiritual voice.
The Spirit of truth guides us into all truth of Scripture. Any voice not confirmed by Scripture as true, is not the voice of the true Spirit of Christ.
Nor does it lead us to Christ, nor as Christ:
Have you not read that discernment is a gift from the Holy Spirit?
1 Cor 12:10 and to another the effecting of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing of spirits, to another
various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.
The Pharisees studied the Scriptures and thought Jesus had a demon - so Jesus had to explain to them that their father was the devil. If they were hearing from the Holy Spirit they would know to seek Jesus Christ as their Lord and listen to Him, but they didn't know Him even though He stood in front of them. And Jesus is still in front of us!! So if anyone (this could include you but doesn't according to you testimony), because you don't hear from Him. It does not read "The Spirit of truth guides us into all truth of Scripture" it reads:
Jn 16:13 “But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.
Jesus Christ is the Truth, not the Scriptures!! The Scriptures also have words from the Liar, Satan! It has others lying and doing wrong also. Yes - they are used as an example of what not to do - Like Jesus telling the Jews:
Jn 5:39,40 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.
So you read the Scriptures, which explain that they testify about Jesus Christ and that people make the mistake of thinking the Scriptures are going to save them, so they don't turn to Jesus Christ - the Truth!
Jn 14:6 Jesus *said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
So it's not all "truth of Scriptures" but simply "into all the truth" - You got it wrong - meaning not the truth! You would know that if you actually listened to Him!! He doesn't just talk to you about the Scriptures, He talks to you about all parts of your life!! You would know that if you really knew Him!!
Scripture renews our minds by the Spirit of truth.
Jesus was speaking to the unbelieving Jews, that were making their own doctrine and commandments out of scripture, not believing the Scriptures as written.
Making your own doctrine out of the scripture, is exactly what you are doing!! The way to not do that is to stop leaning on your own understanding and seek Him in all you do!!
Prov 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding.
What happens is that you take a verse like the above, thinking that the Lord is not around to actually talk to us today, so you lean on your own understanding of the scriptures, even though the scriptures say "Trust in the LORD" and not trust in the Scriptures. So the scriptures are right, in telling you to trust in Him, but to trust in Him you first have to seek Him and hear from HIm, but you don't believe in Him - that He is always their to talk to you! Paul put it like this:
Rom 10:3-8 For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law shall live by that righteousness. But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: “DO NOT SAY IN YOUR HEART, ‘WHO WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN?’ (that is, to bring Christ down), or ‘WHO WILL DESCEND INTO THE ABYSS?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).” But what does it say? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching,
That is what's happening with you. You say in your heart that Jesus Christ is either still dead and not risen or He is in a far off place called heaven, so that you can actually hear words from Him so instead you think the Bible has all the words from God we have! So the word of God you preach is in the writings instead of in your heart. Perhaps you tell your self that you can memorize the Bible and get the word in your heart, but that is still saying that Jesus is either still dead of in a far off place called heaven - it is still saying that you can't hear from Him - That is not the word of God we are preaching, but you can't understand it because you don't hear His words!!
Jn 8:43 “Why do you not understand what I am saying?
It is because you cannot hear My word.
Their unbelief lead them to corrupt the Scriptures and reject Jesus as Lord and Savior
You are rejecting Jesus Christ - as pointed out above. And it is you who has corrupted the Scriptures, because you don't believe in Jesus Christ!! Believing in Jesus Christ means believing in Him who said He would never leave us, and said He lead us with His voice, but you keep thinking you are to be lead by the Scriptures. You don't know what it is like to say "Good morning Lord" and hear Him respond with that small voice of His. You don't know what it is like to go to the grocery store and have Him help you pick out what to get. And you certainly don't know what it is like to work in a ministry and hear Him tell you that the person inf ront of you has a bad elbow or shoulder, or... so that you asked them about it, find out they He told you the truth again, and you then pray and He heals it. I can tell you, and testify about it, but you won't accept our testimony about Him.
Jn 3:11 “Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony.
So it is all explained in the Scriptures, but to understand you have to actually listen to Him. It doesn't come by leaning on your own understanding, but by actually listening to what comes out of His mouth - just like it is written in the Scriptures!
Prov 2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth
come knowledge and understanding.
Let's just say that the apostle Paul was not the chiefest of sinners, and he didn't empathize with those in the bondage of double heartedness in Romans 7, in order to make it a life-long endeavor by grace.
Rom 7:15 For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I
would like to
do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.
Rom 7:24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?
You just don't get it!! Of course Paul was not " chiefest of sinners", but he was a man who because he knew the Lord actually realized that he was a "Wretched man", and thus was asking the question "Who will set me free from the body of this death?"
Now Saul, l that Pharisee who didn't know the Lord, and was thinking pridefully that he was doing God a great service by heading off to put Christians in jail, based on his own understanding of right and wrong. He had no idea that he was a "Wretched man" needing the help of the Lord. Saul didn't understand, but Paul did!!
If you know the Lord what you find out is that He is God and you are not!! That He is right, and you are not!! That He knows what should be done and you don't! That you are so far off from being righteous that you have to talk to Him! And the closer you get to Him, and the more you talk to Him, but more certain of all this you become. Yes, Paul was not the "" chiefest of sinners"! Saul was much closer to that. Yet Paul was better because he knew that he was a sinner in need of Jesus Christ - which Saul didn't know!
Again - you don't get it. Because we know the perfect One, we know we are "wretched men", need Him. So we seek Him and advise others to do the same! We also try harder not to be so bad, though out best efforts are never going to be good enough. The knowing how you are (a sinner) means you try to do better and seek the Lord!