"They will all be taught by God." - Jesus
For to us God reveals through the Spirit for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the things of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, which things we also speak, not in teachings of words of human wisdom but in teachings of the Spirit, spiritual ones discerning spiritual things.
1 Corinthians 2:10-13
I am curious to know what those bolded red words say to people in general. What does the Spirit teach / what are people learning?
What are you supposing that the Spirit is teaching people / what they will be learning from the Spirit?
I think the better question is "
WHAT will all people be taught by God?" because The same guy who wrote 2 Corinthians 2:10-13 also wrote Ephesians 4:11-16. Isaiah 54 (vs. 13), John 6:41-51 (vs45), 2 Corinthians 2:10-13, and Ephesians 4:11-16 cannot be read to conflict with one another.
In the Ephesian epistle Paul specifically stated Jesus gave
some to be leaders, not all. When the prophet Isaiah said, "All your sons will be
[l]taught by the LORD," and Jesus referenced Isaiah when speaking to the Jews neither God, Isaiah, nor Jesus were precluding God from using others. In point of fact, in John 6 Jesus simultaneously makes a distinction and identical claim between the God the Father and himself. In one sentence he states, "
Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to me," thereby making a distinction between himself and the Father. In the very next sentence, however, an implicit identification with God is asserted when he says, "
Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father." Jesus claims to have seen God (and lived). He then has the audacity to claim God's teaching brings the learner to Jesus!
A few decades later Paul then teaches Jesus gives
some to apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers (and others; the list is not exhaustive), and one of the specified reasons Jesus gave us those people was so that "
until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ."
God uses others.
The question that follows is, "
How can we tell who are the leaders Jesus gave us, the ones through whom we are taught by God, verses those who aren't?" because there many mentions in the New Testament of false teachers, those God is not using to teach us.
I am curious to know what those bolded red words say to people in general. What does the Spirit teach / what are people learning?
What are you supposing that the Spirit is teaching people / what they will be learning from the Spirit?
Great question(s).
At a bare minimum, one of the ways we can tell whether what we're learning is from the Spirit (or not) is whether or not our "learning" reconciles with the written word. The written word, the incarnate word, and revealed word never contradict. So, on any occasion where we believe we have been taught something directly by the Spirit, it behooves us to verify its authenticity and correctness with the word. Any contradiction is an indication that learning did not come from God. It may have been the flesh, or it may have been demonic, but it is not God. God doesn't contradict Himself. He may add to the revelation, but he never changes His prior revelation (unless the original was made with some conditional caveat).
