SaultoP
you might be interested to hear that the turning of the other cheek is an aggressive response: instead of caving in, you dare the person to do it again because you are confident in what you believe.
I suspect you are once more taking your own reasoning through a thing as being the same as doing so through the Scripture.
Like my pointing this out to you again, or not, but your kind of reasoning through a thing is the exact kind of reasoning through a thing that an overreliance on books supposedly based on Scripture cannot but result in.
And books are very attractive to one who reasons in that way. Because they so closely match said reasoner's same, own, basic approach to reasoning through a thing.
Scripture's role in this ends up only the false perception that one has relied on Scripture.
You have yet to ask, but the reason I so harp on the importance of believing 2 Timothy 3:16-17's assertion actually is true - on the importance of believing through one's actual practice of going to Scripture for one's answers is that it makes a huge difference in how we end up reasoning through a thing.
That huge difference between viewing a crime scene through the eyes of one who has read all sorts of crime
fiction and the eyes of one who has not only actually trained in crime detection, but who later has years in its actual practice and through its science.
Say what you will, nevertheless, detection of the things of God through His Word
alone will
often greatly differ from attempting to through "the wisdom of men."
Matthew 4:
3. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
4.
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by
every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of God.
2 Timothy 3:
12. Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
13.
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
14.
But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
15. And that from a child thou hast known
the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16.
All scripture is given by inspiration
of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction,
for instruction in righteousness:
17. That the man of God may be perfect,
throughly furnished unto
all good works.
Obviously, the writings Timothy had been weaned on as a child had been based on a passage like Deut. 6: 4-9 and that, in light of what the Lord reiterated in Matthew 4:4.
That is how Scripture is reasoned... through Scripture Itself... "spiritual things with spiritual" as far as where he who they were meant for to begin with - "he that is spiritual," ought to be concerned with, as to this issue, 1 Cor. 2:13-15.
