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This witness is true......

Titus 1:13

We, by the Holy Ghost within us, are able to discern that this is not factually
correct (1 John 3:9). Indeed there were then, and are now, Christian Cretans (Tit
1:5, 13). The same applies when the Word refers to the unicorn (Num 23:22, Deut
33:17, Isaiah 34:7) or the sucking of honey out of a rock (Deut 32:13). When the
Word speaks of a talking thistle it is not being literally and factually true (2 Kings
14:9, 2 Chron 25:18). However when the ass speaks to Balaam this is literally true
(Num 22:28-30). It is impossible to discern these distinctions by any rule of
grammar or other rule or by taking selective refuge by reference to expressions or
figures of speech, only the Holy Ghost can discern when the Word is being literal
and when it is not (1 Cor 2:11-16).

Likewise we can discern by the Holy Ghost within us that Herod was not actually a
fox with pointed ears, brownish-red fur, and a bushy tail (Luke 13:32). There is no
rule in the English language that allows any meaning, under a literal interpretation,
other than that all Cretans are liars and that Herod was both a man (Luke 3:1, 19-
20, 9:7, 13:31-32) and fox, as Jesus is both a man and God (John 20:28, 1 Tim
2:5). It is futile to take refuge by claiming that a statement is an expression or a
figure of speech, indeed often people say that their boss ‘is God’ or that so-and-so

‘walks on water’ or has ‘come back from the dead’. Once refuge is taken by
reference to expression then all the miracles and mysteries of the Word can simply
be held to be expressions or figures of speech. It is certainly futile to say that if
something is obviously impossible or illogical then it is obviously a figure of
speech, as then all the miracles and mysteries qualify. For example the Word
establishes that God is not Man and Man is not God (Num 23:19, Job 9:32, Hos
11:9, John 1:18) so it can easily be claimed that when the Word says that Jesus is
both a man and God it is simply an expression when, of course, this is in fact the
truth (John 20:28, 1 Tim 2:5). It is illogical to our minds but true and the Word
can not be interpreted simply by logic and the rules of grammar, syntax and
vocabulary (1 Cor 2:11-16). God, that is Christ (1 Tim 2:5), is a man of war too
(Ex 15:3) although he fights spiritually (2 Cor 10:4, Rev 12:7).

The Word allows only two categories: parable: spiritually true but factually, at
least in part, possibly and often though not necessarily, inaccurate (Mat 13:34) or
literally (i.e as described, factually) true: in fact and spirit (Psalm 119:160). The
factual inaccuracy is so that God can start to reach those only initially able to