Funny

Not.

Reality!

Is that what you think Jesus meant when He said, "Thy Word is truth"?

1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2He was in the beginning with God.
3All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.
14And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

6Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

Jesus is the Word and Jesus is the Truth. God's Truth is a person.

An interesting, and I believe accurate, take. Exactly what I had in mind. Let's see what fun2believe thinks of it.

And God's Word is a person.

Agreed.

And that Person said, "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life." And that brings us back to the written words as an objective standard of truth.

Is it possible that when we reject the clear reading of the written words because they do not match our reality we actually reject the Truth/Word/Person of Jesus Christ in favor of our own judgment? (Kinda like having another god ...?)

"Clear reading of the written words" is pretty subjective, isn't it? I can see you rejecting the clear reading of the written words, but not me. Isn't that how everybody see it?

That is, when you believe something I disagree with, it's because you are rejecting the clear reading of the written words. However, when I believe something you disagree with, it's because you are not understanding what the written words really mean.

This also comes to mind:

Not necessarily.

The "clear reading" is the meaning most reasonably intelligent people would get out of the words without resorting to convoluted arguments.

Example: The Bible has some pretty clear things to say about sex outside of marriage, including same-gender sex. It refers to such homosexual sex a number of time, but never favorably. By contrast, the "marriage bed" of heterosexual marriage is pronounced "undefiled."

If you were a gay Christian activist, you would tell me that my reading is "subjective," because the Bible is really only forbidding same-gender sex for heterosexual persons (because it's "unnatural" for them) and it's forbidding sex with temple prostitutes. In case you're not familiar with this reading of the relevant texts, this reading is well "supported" by the original Greek and Hebrew on many web sites.

However, most people reading the prohibitions of a man lying with a man and women engaging in "unnatural" relations would read these as a straightforward prohibition against homosexual sex.

And that's what I mean when I write of the "clear reading of the written words."

Prophecy is quite another matter, of course, because, by its very nature, there is no "clear reading" but a purposeful hiding of the meaning which can be discerned by the "initiated" -- those led by the Spirit of God to study "line upon line, precept upon precept."

For that matter, i realize that the bottom line is that all spiritual mattes are spirituall discerned.