The Bible is like no other book ever written. Inspired by God and penned by men over thousands of years, the Bible was written in such a way that it can be picked up and read by anyone as a regular book (as long as your translation existed at the time).
And because it's within our nature to assume that any book written, is done so, with the express purpose of being clear and concise, the natural inclination is that God wrote His Word in the same manner and so we must approach our reading of the Bible the same way.
1. THE HISTORICAL LEVEL
When we approach the Bible this way, we learn historical facts and truths of actual historical occurances, even supernatural ones (like the parting of the seas).
2. THE MORAL LEVEL
When we approach the Bible as any other book, we still learn moral truths which can help anyone and everyone who applies it, live a good moral life. We also learn that which displeased God.
3. THE SPIRITUAL LEVEL
When we approach the Bible in the same way as we do for the first two levels, at face value, by God's design, we then entirely miss the spiritual level meaning of the Bible because this level was set apart for God's true children, those with the Spirit of God within them. It is this level which God has concealed within the historical and moral levels, as they both contain the gospel message within it. This is what the Bibke means by telling us that the law (the whole Bible) is spiritual (Rom 7:14), and this is the truth concealed from the unsaved which they cannot understand.
1 Corinthians 2:13-14 (KJV)
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. 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.
Any rebuttals? If so, could you please do so with the scriptures?
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