I’ve told people repeatedly that they really don’t need the Bible, save to know that they are justified by faith, and how to be justified by faith. The following is why:

Jeremiah 31

32 It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.

33 “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

34 No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”

Once a person realizes that having faith correctly is central to a Christian’s life, and actually practices it, he will instinctively know the truth about God, and the world we live in. All the truths written in the Bible will become apparent to him, and he will realize the Bible is not really meant to instruct Christians: the Bible is largely there to affirm what he realizes is true.

Finally, many people think it is possible to grow in God, with their wills being (from time to time) inharmonious with God’s. That is simply not true:

Philippians 2

13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.

The more you grow in God through the practice of having faith (asking God for things, and believing you will receive them [Mark 11:22-24]) the more tightly your will will be aligned with God’s. The only way the will of a man of great faith can become increasingly misaligned with God’s, is for that man to fade in his faith in God – that is, the man has to decreasingly practice asking God for things, while believing he will receive them [Mark 11:22-24].

The following is the rebuke from God, to those who think they are spiritually rich, and do not practice having faith in God (i.e. ask God for things, and believe they will receive them [Mark 11:22-24]). God below, refers to the practice of having faith, as purchasing gold from him:

Revelation 3

17 You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.

19 Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.…

So I implore everyone to have faith in God correctly, and rely on the practice to see the truth about God and this world.