The Rubble of Textualism

The topic is Illumination. The same Spirit that revealed God's message through the authors of Scripture must illumine that message to the Christian. The danger of imposing your sovereignty (read wishful thinking or assumed virtues) over the text of scripture was presented in our last message. On the other side of such such subjectivism, we may inappropriately come before God's Word is a smug self confident textualism. Because God's special revelation may be understood through the application of common sense hermeneutical principles does not mean that this word can be known without the illumination of the Holy Spirit.