A lot of Christians living biblical lives are condemned to hell.

Without the Spirit, the Bible becomes whatever we want it to be.

“we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting”
— Ephesians 4:14

There’s a lot of deceitful plotting going on by so-called Christians today.

We need to stop being Bible followers and become obedient to the Word.

There is a difference between the Bible and the Word.

Scripture is vital. It is God’s communication, but

The Bible is what God said.
The Word is what God means.

Never forget that the Pharisees Jesus rebuked live biblically.

We need to stop being Bible followers and become obedient to the Word which is a Person.

What we need more than the memorization of scripture and exegetical sophistication is a relationship with God granted through a heart quickened by the Holy Spirit that allows us to know Him.

No matter how clearly I think something is said, if I don’t know the person saying it, I will misunderstand their communication.

“For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.”
— 1 Corinthians 2:11

Read scripture and ask God what He meant, which acknowledges the Person of God rather than approaching faith like a philosophy. Keep doing so until the eyes of your heart are opened (Ephesians 1:18) where God reveals Himself, we receive the Holy Spirit and are granted the ability to know Him.

Then we can walk according to His Spirit that conveys what He means by His Word rather than what we, according to our desperately wicked hearts without His Spirit, wants the Bible to mean.