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In response to my recent article on "Covenant NOT New Testament" I was challenged about my statement that less than 2% of the bible is inspired.
The person who challenged me was coming from the perspective of teachings which claim that the entire bible "is the living word of God and breathed by God".
As I debated the subject with this person I came to a better understanding of what I was saying in that article which is basically that most of what is recorded in the bible is words written by men with limited or no specific anointing or inspiration.
In terms of what Yah said to me regarding less than 2% of the book being inspired this relates to words given directly by the Spirit of Yah.
By way of illustration, in Malawi in 1994 Yah spoke through me directly for about an hour as I prophesied over three other men and myself – during this time the only control I had over what was coming out of my mouth was that I could have chosen to shut my mouth. I had no foreknowledge of what came out of my mouth, Yah was speaking through the vocal chords of James Robertson in the first person.
Yet we all knew that it was Yah speaking.
Thereafter I taught for about a further two hours and during those two hours I said things that again I had no foreknowledge of, we all knew it was Yah speaking through me although I was then speaking as James and the level of inspiration even then was lower than during the first hour.
Yah has NEVER again spoken through me with that level of anointing and inspiration.
I have written in excess of six thousand pages of documents relating to the things of the Almighty and I would like to believe that in most of these there has been some level of anointing or inspiration, yet I have to say that to my knowledge NONE of those documents were fully inspired.
I have also had Yah give me revelation in business and I would like to believe that there has been a fair level of anointing and inspiration in much of what I have written and done there as well. Yet, to the best of my knowledge NONE of those documents were fully inspired either.
The rest of the time there has been some level of James Robertson in the message – Yah has been speaking to my spirit, my spirit has received the message and integrated it with my thoughts to produce spoken or written words which contain some level of anointing and inspiration. However, in terms of the definition that I am seeking to develop in this article these words are NOT "inspired" in the full sense of the word!
It does not take inspiration to recount history although some level of anointing IS useful in ensuring that the most relevant information IS recorded – this applies to at least half of the bible if not more – so these historical accounts cannot be regarded as inspired.
Much of the rest of the bible comprises writings of one kind or another, including accounts of words spoken by various people that may be inspired at some level but are NOT fully inspired.
There are some limited passages which recount words spoken directly by Yah and words spoken by Yah through various spokesmen {prophets} including Yahooshua, Moshe, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, etc – this is the 2% I am referring to. Much of Proverbs reports inspired words and some of the Psalms are inspired. That is the limit.
And, once one lets go of the idolatry associated with believing that "the bible is the living word of God" then it no longer matters. The bible IS a USEFUL collection of historical writings about interactions between the sons of Adam and Yah the eternally self-existing, in fact, arguably the most important collection that exists in widespread use – why does it have to be more?
Remember, Yah has spoken BILLIONS of words to the sons of Adam a minute fraction of which are recorded in the bible.
Yah has inspired billions of pages of writings at some level through the sons of Adam of which a minute fraction are contained in the bible.
Why limit Yah?
If YOU want inspired words then the best thing to do is to draw closer to Yah until He can speak directly and clearly to you and through you – STOP LOOKING TO OTHER SONS OF ADAM FOR THIS!
Remember also that Yah has called spirit filled believers to REIGN with His Spirit for a thousand years – Yah is looking to you and me to be filled with His Spirit but ALSO to exercise our discretion and intellect to execute Yah's will on earth.
Yah did NOT create us to be glove puppets, Yah created us to have an intelligent, deep, personal relationship with Him.
Conclusion
The quest for inspired words should take you directly to Yah.
Less than 2% of the words in the bible are directly breathed or dictated by Yah, the rest have some level of input from the writers.
May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you peace.
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