@doctorsex IT TELLS ME THAT THERE IS NOT AN IMPASSABLE DICHOTOMY BETWEEN MAN AND GOD
THAT THE WHOLE OF HOLY TRADITION, THE SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS, POINTS TO SYNERGISM AND COOPERATIVE WORK OF MAN AND GOD
(I DON'T WANT TO HURT CALVINS FEELINGS BUT IT SEEMS HE INVENTED SOMETHING THAT WASN'T THERE)


THAT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE INSPIRATION OF SCRIPTURE BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, WE'RE NOT TALKING OF POSSESSION THAT STRIPS MAN OF HIS WILL
YOU KNOW, LIKE THAT THE APOSTLES WENT INTO A TRANCE AND THEN WOKE UP AND THE TEXTS OF THE HEAVENLY QURAN WERE BEFORE THEM ON PAPER
LIKE KING SAUL VISITING THE MONASTERY AND BEING SET UPON BY THE HOLY SPIRIT TYPE THING

BUT THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A SPIRIT, LIKE THE SPIRITS OF PLACE AND ZEITGEIST AND SPIRIT OF OUR TIMES AND SCHOOL SPIRIT (WHICH IF WE HAVE IT LETS HEAR IT)
A SPIRITUAL POWER THAT GUIDES THE ACTIONS OF PEOPLE THAT HE INDWELLS AND SHEPHERDS
SAINT PAUL WROTE A LOT OF LETTERS TO A TON OF CHURCHES, AND IT ISN'T AS THOUGH HE WENT "AH YES THATS SCRIPTURE, MEANWHILE THIS ONE IS JUST A REGULAR OLE PASTORAL CARE EPISTLE"
OVER TIME, THE CHURCHES, GUIDED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, HAVE DECIDED
"WE READ THESE PARTICULAR EPISTLES, OUT OF THE LONG CHAIN OF EPISTLES TO THE EPHESIANS, IN CHURCH. AND OTHER STUFF LIKE EPISTLE TO THE LAODICEANS -- WE CAN SKIP"
AND IT DOESN'T GET COPIED IN THE DAILY READING BOOKS OF A TON OF CHURCHES, AND IT DOESN'T GET PRESERVED
AND NOW THERE'S NO EPISTLE TO THE LAODICEANS OTHER THAN AN ACADEMIC CURIOSITY FOR NEW TESTAMENT SCHOLARSHIP