Currently there has been a bit of a buzz going about in my cliques. It is one of those common controversies which pop up amongst those who like to debate Christianity more than actually practicing it. Our latest controversy has been over the concept of Ilumination. This concept basically says that for a reader, a Christian reader, to fully grasp the Scriptures the intercession of the Holy Spirit in ilumination is necessary. A professor has been teaching that this is not so. He believes that man has been endowed by God with a faculty to reason through the Scriptures on his own. With the appropriate tools or techniques one can study them perfectly capably on one's own.
While I do believe that we are incredibly intelligent people, a gift of God, there is a greater gift within us which is the Holy Spirit. Just as it was necessary for us to have our eyes be unblinded by His work within us unto salvation, so it is necessary now to keep our eyes clear, sharp, focused on the task at hand. The task being, a study of the Scriptures to show ourselves approved before God. Therefore though it does require discipline and determination on our behalf, as students, it is the Spirit that puts the willingness and even the desire within us to do so.
Moody wrote, "The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sun-dial by moonlight."
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