(quote from RealReality.org/Real_Faith_and_Reason_Vol_2_-_Scientia.pdf)

Some people think we need to choose between the Bible and spiritual experience. They think the dead letter is the test of truth, but they separate the Bible from the Holy Spirit. They can’t see the Bible because of the veil of their flesh. They only see their fleshly ideas about the Bible. Without the Spirit of God, no one can understand the Bible. They don’t understand that. They don’t know the Holy Spirit speaks through the Bible and breathes the life of God into the Bible.

Someone always explains the words written in the Bible. One of these three will interpret Scripture:

• the Holy Spirit
• the fallen human mind and its rationalizations
• demonic powers

So, we must guard against the false dichotomy of claiming we either read the Bible or have a spiritual experience. We can read the Bible and hear God’s voice. No one can hear God’s voice without having a spiritual experience. However, if we focus our mind and will toward our own intellects we won’t hear the voice of God. We’ll shout Him down with our rambling minds. Worse yet, when we continually refuse to thank and glorify God for His divine revelation, we become subject to principalities and powers, spiritual wickedness in the high places. If a person reading the Bible is submissive to the Holy Spirit, that person will acknowledge God is speaking to him or her.

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