Hello Cow Poke. Let's not conflate the forms of knowledge that exist in reality. It would be my position that apart from personal revelation all other forms cannot rise above theory. No matter how logical the theory may appear it does not, nor can it, rise the the level of something "personally" revealed. A revelation is like a benchmark by which men can rightly deduce. If a deduction begins not with revelation the end of it is fallacious. Now, if someone is asserting a truth apart from the benchmark it is as if he believes in his heart he has the wherewithal in himself to find the truth out. He does not. Therefore, all of his conclusions will be amiss and his subsequent assertions will be as "special knowledge", not coming from God via personal revelation, but coming from self, or from other autonomous deducers he believes.
To juxtapose. Here is the rock upon which the true Church is built. The personal revelation that Yeshua / Jesus is "...the Christ, Son of the Living God...". To go beyond this rock upon which my Lord builds His Church is to imply a further revelation where there isn't any. This is my confession and testimony. Far be it from me to go beyond what the Father revealed to Peter, and to me as well. Anything apart from this revelation goes beyond and I will count it as men claiming "special knowledge".
To juxtapose. Here is the rock upon which the true Church is built. The personal revelation that Yeshua / Jesus is "...the Christ, Son of the Living God...". To go beyond this rock upon which my Lord builds His Church is to imply a further revelation where there isn't any. This is my confession and testimony. Far be it from me to go beyond what the Father revealed to Peter, and to me as well. Anything apart from this revelation goes beyond and I will count it as men claiming "special knowledge".
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