Reading the Bible does not Give us the Spirit

[Evangelical]

Originally Posted by Ohio

You did a slick "bait amd switch" here.
Piper said, "The more of God's Word you know and love, the more of God's Spirit you will experience."
You changed this to, "reading the Bible does not give us the Spirit."
Classic Lee.

It means the same thing. Experiencing the Spirit is essentially same as being filled with the Spirit. Both the experience and the filling or receiving of the Spirit is not by reading the Bible.