The Origin of the Western Five

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Shlama Akhi,

I think you may be hearing me saying that faith depends on a person's literacy. I don't believe that.
I believe a person can have no faith unless The Holy Spirit gives it to him directly. Without Him, we have no faith or knowledge of truth
or Yeshua. He gives us new birth and Eternal Life. He brings us into God's kingdom and glory. He makes us children of God with the saints in light.
He fills us with righteousness, peace and joy in the love of God.Without Him, we can do nothing, know nothing, have nothing.

I do not mean to diminish Him in any way. Of course, any child who can hear and understand truth can believe and know the truth of Yeshua and have eternal life.

I also know that The Spirit wrote the "scriptures which can make you wise for the Life in the faith of The Messiah". 2 Tim. 3:15
and that all scripture of The Spirit is profitable for doctrine,...."

All scripture can supply faith, but only by The Spirit. He must enlighten us and teach us. Yes, if we have no Bible, or are unable to read and have no one to teach us the truth, He can teach us without any means whatsoever. Yet our Lord has commissioned his church "to go and teach all nations to observe all things
He has taught you." The things He has taught us are recorded in scripture. Whoever taught you received the knowledge from someone who received what was written in scripture, either by reading or hearing from another who read it, or heard another who read..., etc. and back to all generations to the Apostles.

The Living Word and the written word work hand in hand. God has ordained it that way. The written word is essential to propagation of the faith. If we lose all
written records of the life death and burial of our Lord (which is almost impossible today), we would soon slip into another Dark Age of confusion, ignorance and hell.

Peace,

Dave