Over time Christians have migrated from getting individual guidance from God through revelations to taking it all from history, the Bible and Christians leaders. The Bible can be a good guide to avoid the influences of the world. But without the revelation of Christ it is also open to the influences of the world. Many churches believe that revelation comes from the Bible and it's the Churches job to teach you revelation by teaching you the bible. Seminaries are based on this principal the better you know the original context and history the more revelation you will receive. But what is really needed is the mindset of the writer to understand the bible and that was a spiritual mindset. You have to learn how to seek God and find his mindset then you will get revelations from Him and His Word, the Bible. Otherwise you combine the Bible scholars, worldly logic and emotion to interpret; you end up with denomination as we have now for every combination of the three and its' possible spin offs. This is because it is a merging of the three. Everything in the world is tainted; Christians, the church and even the early churches. Paul even was pulled by the world at times. The only pure thing is revelation not the kind you have to steady for but direct enlightenment from God to you.
Some get a revelation from God and live off of it for their whole life. Revelation is meant to take you further down the road not to the end. At some point you are to wait for more and not build on top of what He gave you.
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