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1 | Part 1 Does God talk to you personally? | 2 Tim 3:16 | Radioman2 | 85420 | ||
Part 1 Does God talk to you personally? "A Private Hot Line to God?" by Gregory Koukl 'Does God talk to you personally? Would you bet your life on it? Claiming to receive personal messages from God on a regular basis places subjective experience on the same level as Scripture, Greg argues. This is the claim of a prophet, and not even Old Testament prophets did so unless they were willing to die for the claim. 'I've made what I think is a telling observation about those who hold to a dual source of special revelation. Whenever an organization says, "We believe the Bible is inspired plus we believe our leadership is inspired," or "We believe the Bible is inspired plus we believe this other book of ours" (like the Book of Mormon, for example) "is inspired," the Bible always ends up taking the back seat instead of being on equal footing with these other sources of special revelation. 'I think most Christians will be comfortable with that assessment. This, though, raises a question about Evangelical claims to multiple sources of special revelation. For all our talk about sola Scriptura, many also hold that God speaks to them on a regular basis giving true information about Himself and specific directions for their lives. Their claim is, essentially, "I believe the Bible is a bona fide source of information and the Spirit also gives private information directly to me." The second step frequently follows the first: The personal, subjective sense of what a person thinks God is telling him trumps the objective Scripture. 'I was teaching from the Bible recently in a large Evangelical church here in Southern California, and I was publicly opposed by a woman who challenged my view not on the basis of a better interpretation of Scripture (she completely ignored my exegesis), but on the basis of what she was convinced the Holy Spirit had told her. She called me a heretic and said I was sinning because I was "analyzing and dissecting the Bible" instead of letting the Holy Spirit speak to me. My view was merely "man's interpretation." You'd be amazed at how often I run into that kind of response by otherwise orthodox Christians. 'Note that I have a very robust doctrine of the Holy Spirit. I'm charismatic in that I believe in the perpetuity of spiritual gifts and in energetic worship. The real question is-- and this is vital-- Are we justified in claiming that our personal, private, first-person, subjective experiences give us authoritative knowledge about God, or about what God wants us to do? 'If a woman said, "God told me to marry this man," that wouldn't be contrary to Scripture unless he was a non-Christian or already married. Even if he was a Christian, though, the statement begs a different question: Does Scripture give us the liberty to assign the authority of divine fiat to our subjective experiences? 'My answer is nowhere does the Bible give us that liberty. It does not enjoin us to assess our feelings and then judge whether they are a manifestation of the voice of God or not.' This is an excerpt from the article. To read more go to: (http://www.str.org/free/commentaries/life/aprivate.htm). |
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2 | Part 1 Does God talk to you personally? | 2 Tim 3:16 | Asis | 85450 | ||
To all believers STOP If you abide in Me I will abide in you STOP For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak. STOP I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you. STOP I will place my Spirit in you. STOP You will walk by the Spirit. STOP But He will not tell you the way to go. STOP? He will not tell you to turn left or right. STOP? He will be silent until I return. Stop? If you don't need to hear from Me I won't talk to you. RIGHT! Stay in touch GOD never stop I find it hard to accept that godly men and women do not seek direction for their lives by asking GOD. How did these men and women know that they are to be involved in ministry. I have yet to find the verse that says, "Gregory Koukl be a pastor and write bizarre and wierd stuff on the internet." So how did he know what to do for the LORD with his life? I don't know about you, but for me God has used other men and women, some saved and some not, He has used His word, my thoughts, and something I can only describe as an inner knowing, to direct my path. Go to Dearborn. Don't go to Ronanoke. I knew it was God. Maybe because I was looking for His direction I heard Him. I have made some incredible blunders in my life because I did not seek God for direction. I missed God. I feel for those who walk the Christian walk alone without the guidance of God, the Holy Spirit and Jesus. Maybe if we just got quiet we would hear what God is saying to us. John 5:37-38 “And the Father who sent Me, He has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form. “You do not have His word abiding in you, for you do not believe Him whom He sent. John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: [KJV] |
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3 | Part 1 Does God talk to you personally? | 2 Tim 3:16 | Radioman2 | 85457 | ||
ad hominem - marked by an attack on an opponent's character rather than by an answer to the contentions made Your ad hominem attack and bold assertions prove nothing. Also, you have not directly addressed any of the points made in my post, ID# 85420. I am not here to play dueling assertions. All you have done is deny what I posted, without refuting any of it. To refute mans "to PROVE wrong by argument or EVIDENCE." I find your arguments weak and your evidence non-existent. |
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