name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance
all that I said to you" (John 14:23-26).
It is not the Bible that is to "teach us all things." The
Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit, the continuing personal
expression of God to man, the Word indwelling in us
teaches us all things and expresses God in man. Every
Christian has the indwelling presence of the Word, Jesus
Christ, or else that person is not a Christian.
"You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know" (I
John 2:20). "The anointing which you received from Him abides
in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His
anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie,
and just as it (He) has taught you, you abide in Him" (I John 2:27).
Can you see the problem the Jewish scribes and
Pharisees had with Jesus? Jesus came claiming to
personally BE all that they ascribed to the precepts of the
law and commandments of the Torah. Jesus came saying, "I
AM the Word, the Life, the Light, the Truth, the Wisdom,
the Way, etc.
The living expression of God can never be codified in
the definitions and descriptions of written words. Such is
the anomaly of Christianity. Could this be what John meant
in the very last word of his gospel narrative when he wrote,
"there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if
they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world