“Come on now, you certainly don’t believe that! How could you?”
It’s not difficult to do so. The Bible is so clear about the subject.
“Show me.”
Delighted to. Turn to John 16:13. There the Lord says to His disciples who are about to become apostles, “But when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth.” The phrase, “Spirit of truth” means that He is the Source of all truth. The genitive use there has the ablative sense of “Source from which.”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about—genitives and ablatives are just foreign words to me. Please explain in plain English.”
OK. Jesus predicted that on Pentecost the Holy Spirit would come to the apostles in a special way that He didn’t come to others—He would come to provide for them all the truth that was necessary for the church to have. All of it is the thing to remember. There was to be no more truth revealed after the Spirit had given them what God wanted them to have.
“So, you’re saying that there would be nothing more—nothing?”
Nothing.
“Sure?”
Yep. All truth means just that all truth! Aren’t you glad that we
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