if the Biblicists have the Holy Spirit as their guide why are they all scattered?

Question

and the Catholic Church is false, why are they all running around having their own opinion of what truth is?

surely the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth, why are all the Biblicists have different truths and have scattered?

Answer 1

True true! How can the Holy Spirit be a God of confusion? Yet that's what they make Him out to be with 20,000 plus different interpretations!

Answer 2

Having an infallible Bible is not enough,obviously with the 30,000+ Bible Alone denominations. An infallible interpreter ,guided by the Holy Spirit is just as needed as discerner of even what is and is not inspired Holy Writ. An infallible Apostolic Tradition is also need for the New testament to emerge and be rightly interpreted and 'Chystalized" and for the OT and Mosaic tradition to be rightly interpreted and applied in the light of Christ.

We cant all be right but we can all be wrong ,yet then the Holy Spirit would have failed and Christ was very wrong for the Gates of hell would have prevailed against the Rock of Peter . I believe that God the Father and His Christ and their Holy Spirit andTheir Church with the Full Word of God are true,trustworthy and reliable.

Answer 3

The Holy Spirit IS the Spirit of Truth. However, mankind is NOT YET spirit, but flesh and bone and therefore suseptible to temptation, ego, greed, etc. This has been the case since the beginning of church history. Because of this fact, many have been will be deceived for the time being, often by their own self-doctrination. However, there will come a time when every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, and all the confusion will end. When that time comes, there will only be two addresses. Are you ready?

Added thought to t d and the answer about tongues. I guess this would be a classic example of the differences in interpretation and self-doctrination. The Spirit gives gifts as HE decides, not as man decides what is required. Read 1Corinthians Chapters 12, 13, & 14. Not all who are baptised in the Holy Spirit speak in tongues. Some prophecy, some heal, some speak in other tongues, some interpret.

4 There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. 6 And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. 7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: 8 for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as HE wills.
1 Cor 12:4-11 NKJV

Answer 4

There are many contradictions in the bible.

The Roman Catholic church, which has a high-educated clergy, recognizes that, and so do the mainline Christian churches, which also believe in an educated clergy.

The fundamentalist churches supposedly believe in every word of the bible, which is only sustainable if your clergy and congregants have never actually READ the bible.

Consequently, there are about 7 major denominations in mainline christianity, all of whom have minor differences in their beliefs, and all of whom consider those differences to be inconsequential.

However, there there thousands of fundamentalist churches with different beliefs, and they consider those differences to be highly important. Thus the joke that if you get two fundamentalists together, they form a church, and if you add a third fundamentalist, one of them breaks off and forms a splinter denomination.

The other joke is that fundamentalist churches often call themselves non-denominational. That is, if you believe *exactly* what they believe, you're a Christian, and if you have any differences in your belief, you're not.

Answer 5

This question is an excellent one and the best. It does not condemns most protestants do. On the Catholic Church, The Catechism (guide book and which all catholic fallow) never condemns our separated brothers (other Christians). This question has good point, but most people are blind don’t want to face their problem, and it is not working for them. I don’t see any Catholic condemning Christian brother but putting good point are not being answered.

Answer 6

The Catholic Church was founded by Jesus Christ upon His Apostles (the first bishops of the Church). He promised guidance to the Church via the Holy Spirit.

'He who hears you, hears Me."

http://www.call2holiness.org/ScriptureAlone/ScriptureAlone.htm

Answer 7

Humble opinion.... and probably not politically correct.... but...

Most religions have little interest in the direction of or by any deity. Most are only interested in their dogma. Dogma is what they refer to as "truth." If you don't believe their "brand" of truth, you are lovingly condemned to hell.... but they'll pray for you. I tell them not to bother.

People have asked me to help them in their search for the truth--not because I'm particularly religious, or pious, or religiously educated, but because I'm not pushing a religion on them. I don't tell them what I believe. I tell them to keep questioning.... everything. I tell them that if they think they have the answer, they probably don't understand the question. I tell them that if something doesn't make sense, it's probably wrong... throw it out. If it's true, it'll keep coming up.... that's the way you know it's true. That it's so insistent in itself makes me believe that it's true. Truth is not what you see. It's not what you think you see. It's not what you think it is. It's not what you want it to be. Truth is the truth. You don't have to like it.

But if you try to get the truth... or expect to get the truth... from somebody else, you'll not going to find it. You'll only get dogma.

Is all dogma wrong? No. You put a bunch of monkeys in a room full of typewriters... But you have to find truth on your own.

I believe truth is absolute... like mathematics. I believe good is absolute. I believe right is absolute. I believe that if a religious argument can't even stand the test of logic, then it's a crock. And, when somebody tries to explain contradictory points in their religion with, "There are some things that humans/mortals/whatever are not supposed to understand," I believe they don't have the foggiest idea what they're talking about... rather they're just parroting dogma they've heard.

People who study the Bible... or any scripture... as anything other than a general guide written by people who really didn't understand all that they were writing about, are mistaken.

I began to read the Qur'an. My source was an orthodox Muslim. Before I started reading, I asked that he answer my questions, not in the way a Sunni cleric would tell him, nor the way a Shia cleric would tell him, or even the way a Taliban cleric would tell him... but the way Allah wold tell him. In the course of my study I suggested that true is true... whether it's written in Hebrew, Greek, English, Arabic, Sanskrit. or any other language or character set.

Answer 8

b/c most people THINK they have the Holy Spirit.
they think it is AUTOMATIC when you believe or at baptism.
both are false.

if you go to the book of acts & read about the apostles & their teaching of how to be born again & what actually happens at rebirth, you will know that you are filled w/ God's Spirit when you speak in tongues as God's Spirit gives you the ability (acts 2:3, also chap. 8, 10, 19).

until this happens, you do not have undertanding & are not filled w/ the Holy Spirit ... the Spirit of truth.

until this happens, you cannot live in unity.
when you are in "one accord" w/ other Holy Ghost - filled believers, there is power & God is present in your worship services.

that is why most "christians" are weak & living in the flesh, instead of living in the Spirit.
that is why that have limited understanding of scripture.
their churches have a "form of godliness, but deny the power thereof (the Spirit of God).

Answer 9

Plainly, some are being lead of the Holy Spirit in truth and have the Holy Spirit within them and those who don't are being mislead and deceived...

Answer 10

I found an answer I could understand in WIlliam James' "Varieties of Religious Experience".

The conclusion is that God is as the Sea, which washes many different shores. (looks different, but is the same water)