I will accept any offer of wisdom that you may have. You can be my brother and mentor in Christ or you can choose to join Stephen as my Nemesis. What I have shared here is recorded in the comments section of this already posted article:

https://raptureonline.blog/2023/06/12/viewing-gods-love-from-his-son-what-then-should-we-expect/

I’m posting this here, because most of the readers miss the comments when they come later, or even when they come in other vehicles for comment: eg. E-mail, instant message, or text. You may read all of Stephens comments and my replies attached to the above post or begin here:

Stephen Says:

You trying to tell me that Jesus is the bible?
1. In the beginning was the Bible, and the Bible was with God, and the Bible was God.
2.. The Bible was with God in the beginning.
3. Through the bible all things were made; without bible nothing was made that has been made.
4. In the bible was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.
5. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome a it.
You make no sense Jerry.
Jesus IS the Word of God, the bible is a book written and compiled by men.

Most of the “understandings” of hell come from Dantes inferno.

Stephen, you are correct the word of God is more than the Bible, but you cannot even begin to know Jesus without knowing this book. He is the Word who came to men and spoke to them straight from God in the Old, and He is The word of God made flesh who came and fulfilled every prophecy that He had spoken of Himself in the Old Testament, and yes even quoted from it. Then He gave us His Holy Spirit, who inspired His chosen Apostles to write all that they did concerning Him and what you need to know of Him, because you were not there with Him to learn of Him.

Your claim to possess the Holy Spirit and thus to know Jesus and His desires for you only strengthens the value of Scripture to the believer, because He inspired those men to write what they had seen and heard. Any Spirit could speak to you including the deceiver and you would have no basis upon which to test the words of that spirit, because you do not believe the Word of God, which Word Jesus is. And yes He has more words to tell us, but you will never know if they be true, because you have not believed His only written Word to you. You only show what you do not know of God when you speak of hell’s origin. Jesus speaks more of hell, than any other in His own words quoted by His chosen apostles for the purpose of making you and me His disciples. If you wish to not be deceived in these last days then you must study to show yourself approved. If you only want to read and believe in the red letter words in the gospels and the Revelation; then think on these Words in red: Matthew 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. (KJV)

(Hope you will forgive my spelling errors in the actual comments. I tried to clean them up here.)

◦ Bob, I’m sharing this mainly to inquire of you specifically, to see if you would agree or not; that speaking the truth to Stephen is important here, even though he may take what I say as being unloving? Stephen is, as are we all, a professing believer in Jesus. But he obviously denies the Bible as being ligit. So what are your recommendations to Stephen and to me? Stephen regularly comments here publicly, so I’m not revealing anything that he has not already done. You need not share your comments here, but then Stephen will not see them.