Just because you read more than one chapter of the Bible a day, that does not automatically mean that you have any understanding at all of the scriptures that you have read.
Interesting. Yet Scripture never teaches that believers should limit themselves to one chapter a day either.
The issue is not whether someone reads one chapter or ten —
the real issue is whether the Holy Spirit opens their understanding through the Word.
Christ said, “Search the scriptures… they are they which testify of me” (John 5:39). The Bereans were called noble because they searched the Scriptures daily, not because they barely touched them.
Ironically, mocking me for studying more Scripture says more about your attitude toward God’s Word than mine. A person can read little and still remain blind. A person can read much and grow greatly in wisdom. But discouraging deeper study is never presented as a virtue in the Bible. Educate yourself:
John 14:26
“But the Comforter, which is the
Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name,
he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”
John 16:13
“Howbeit when he, the
Spirit of truth, is come,
he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak:
and he will shew you things to come.”
1 Corinthians 2:10-14
“But God hath
revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the
Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man,
but the Spirit of God.
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world,
but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but
which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them,
because they are spiritually discerned.”
1 John 2:27
“But th
e anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you:
but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.”
Luke 24:45
“Then opened
he their understanding, that
they might understand the scriptures,”
2 Peter 1:20-21
“Knowing this first,
that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but
holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”
Psalm 119:18
“Open thou mine eyes, that
I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.”
James 1:5
“If any of you lack wisdom,
let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and
it shall be given him.”
Ephesians 1:17-18
“That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,
may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
The
eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling…”
John 6:45
“It is written in the prophets, And t
hey shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.”
John 5:39
“
Search the scriptures; for in them
ye think ye have eternal life: and
they are they which testify of me.”
Shall I go on and on?
What I was suggesting to you was that you had, in your rebuttal, wrongly linked 2 Chronicles 7:19-22 to the Babylon Exile, which was a past event, to what Jesus had spoken about in John 2:18-22 when He used the sign of the Jews causing the temple to be destroyed in 70 AD as His justification of rebuilding the temple with the Saints of His Body in three days of the Lord in the distant future, which is very different to the traditional understanding of these verses. In John 2:19 Jesus was pointing towards a future event when the literal temple that Jesus had cleansed would be destroyed by the Jews and not to the crucifixion of Christ and His subsequent resurrection three day later.
John then inserts his commentary into this passage by writing this: - John 2:21-22: - 21 But he was speaking about the temple of his body. 22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
Now the Temple of His body also includes Christ's Saints of this present time period and the age to come. The disciples also remembered, after he had been raised from the dead, that He had said this, and they believed the scriptures and the word that Jesus had spoken concerning the future Temple.
Future temple? Ahem... I will allow you to be deceived by your own false private interpretation. :-)
It seems that your head is always spinning to fast.
