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And He has told us that He does know everything.

True enough. In order to communicate, there must be agreement on meaning of words and critical phrases. That does not usually happen.

What does it mean "to believe in your spirit"? That is not a phrase that even exists in the Bible.

Yes, and it is mostly your nonbiblical soteriology.

For one to believe in free will does not mean believing that that one made himself born again. Such thinking is wrong.

I don't know if it helps the conversation at all. My point is that what some here are proclaiming is a divine message direct from God apart from His written word which is simply not there. Such a direct divine message is what may be referred to as the doctrine of illumination. That is a false...

Yes, that message is the Bible, the written word of God.

None of that says anything about God speaking to you personally and individually. It is speaking about the indwelling Holy Spirit that one receives when his sins are forgiven and he receives the gift of the Holy Spirit, i.e., when he is saved.

The "word of God" is either the "Logos", i.e., Jesus (John 1:1), or God's special revelation, the written word, which we have received from God bye the apostles and prophets through the Holy Spirit (Heb 1:1).

Nah, what you hear is simply voices in your head or maybe in dreams while you are sleeping. If all of what you say there were true, then God would certainly have told us so in His written word. But he didn't. John 3:8 is nothing about hearing voices. It is simply saying that there is no...

Almost none of that is scriptural; but is instead nothing more than your imagination.

In fact, it is only through reading scripture or hearing scripture from a preacher that you can know what it even means that Jesus died on the cross. Rom 10:14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And...

You have a lot to say about the "Living word of God". It seems, however to the contrary, that the Bible has nothing at all to say about it. There seems to be not the slightest mention of it in the Bible. So what could you possibly mean by being "in this thread by the Living word of God?

Wrong, it is because God is actually speaking the same thing to both and that is nothing at all to both.

God is obviously not speaking to your spirit the same things that He is speaking to Greatful's spirit. How come God speaks different things to different people's spirits about the same things?