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> NKJV, Ephesians 4:16 - from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
How can a body require all members to have the same capacity, and the same gifts, not having accountability to other gifts? Who was "right"? No, the question is "Who was wrong to not bind themselves to others, to be accountable, and hold accountable"? Who removed themselves as Iron to sharpen iron?
The premise that "giftings" are mutually exclusive, "exegetical theologians", and "gifts of knowledge, wisdom, revelation, and prophecy", are not remotely necessary .. is completely a-textual.
I know all about confirmation bias.
Confirmation bias is exactly why these hermeneutic principles cannot be mutually exclusive. You cannot say that they are, and not have confirmation bias. That is not remotely rational, or internally consistent.
Then again, I suppose that injects an "inclusivity bias", Progressive!! WOO
If you can see the dangers of "Sola-Spiritual", can you also see the dangers of "Sola-Scripture"?
... because that is exactly what the prophets rebuked, (especially samuel rebuking saul, who had done everything according to Scripture, but yet "did not obey" - by simply standing together with Samuel, advocating for and with each other - as God ordained from the beginning).
Ironically It is understanding what "I desire mercy and not sacrifice" means, that proves that spiritual revelation cannot possibly come from Scripture - which is what Jesus proved when he said, "go and figure out what this means." There is just no "life" in academically researching Scripture. Never has been, never will be.
> NKJV, Zechariah 4:6 - So he answered and said to me: “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ Says the Lord of hosts.
@JamesShewey The validity of "Systematic Theology", (the consistent application of a Spiritual principle to interpret the whole of Scripture) is established in that it is easily falsifiable. Any single valid exception - shown through exegesis - disproves the entire system of theology.