" Answers without the discernment from the Holy Spirit is not good "

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Christians should grow in spiritual discernment

The Bible teaches that all Christians should grow in spiritual discernment.

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.
- Hebrews 5:12-14

 

Paul told the Thessalonians:

Do not quench the Spirit; do not despise prophetic utterances. But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; abstain from every form of evil.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22

 

While he encouraged the Thessalonians not to discount or dismiss the Holy Spirit — by despising that which was being taught as coming from God (prophecy) — Paul instructed them to test everything. In other words, if someone preaches or teaches something that he or she claims was inspired by God, we are not to despise it — which would result in quenching the Holy Spirit. However, we are to carefully examine that which is being taught. Earlier, Luke called the people of Berea — where Paul and Silas had been sent to preach — “more noble-minded that those in Thessalonica,” because they received the word with great eagerness, examining [anakrino] the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so. Therefore many of them believed, along with a number of prominent Greek women and men.
- Acts 17:11-12

Thus the Bereans did not quench the Spirit, but rather tested what was being taught, using Scripture as their guide.