The King James Version is not a perfect translation, but it is translated from the oldest manuscripts and we have access to the tools (concordances, interlinears, dictionaries) which are keyed to the KJV to check the translators and check the original text as necessary. The Bible is its own interpreter.
1 Corinthians 2:13 declares:
"Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual."
The Bible is a spiritual book because God who is the author is Spirit, and they that worship God must worship him in Spirit and in truth ( John 4:24).
The primary reason that natural man is unable to discern the spiritual things of God is because man by nature is spiritually dead, as we read in 1 Corinthians 2:14 "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."
Ephesians 2:1-9 "And you hath he quickened [made alive], who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air [Satan], the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation [manner of living] in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us [made us alive] together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of works lest any man should boast.
The King James Version is not a perfect translation, but it is translated from the oldest manuscripts and we have access to the tools (concordances, interlinears, dictionaries) which are keyed to the KJV to check the translators and check the original text as necessary. The Bible is its own interpreter.
1 Corinthians 2:13 declares:
"Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual."
The Bible is a spiritual book because God who is the author is Spirit, and they that worship God must worship him in Spirit and in truth ( John 4:24).
The primary reason that natural man is unable to discern the spiritual things of God is because man by nature is spiritually dead, as we read in 1 Corinthians 2:14 "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."
Ephesians 2:1-9 "And you hath he quickened [made alive], who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air [Satan], the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation [manner of living] in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us [made us alive] together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of works lest any man should boast.
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