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NASB | Luke 11:2 And He said to them, "When you pray, say: 'Father, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 11:2 He said to them, "When you pray, say: 'Father, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. |
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Bible Note: Hi, WOS! Thank you for your response! The inevitable question must therefore be asked: If God never speaks except to repeat what in the Scriptures (and I commend you for this belief) then what would the value of God speaking be? Instead we have everything He would say right at our fingertips! Why not, therefore, point people to the Word of God, so that you don't have to worry about the source of experiences? I suspect that reading the Bible just isn't as exciting. Which is typical of our world today. We don't even have the discipline to meditate on truths of Scripture, what Christ has done, the cost of our sin, the nature of God, etc. We want to be spoon fed nice predigested sound-bites. We would rather have happy-clappy times, than to listen to careful exposition of the Scriptures. In many of the services I attended, people were reading fortunes cloaked in KJV English, while heavily borrowing from the language of Scripture. (Do they now use NIV English?) Presumably, if the person is wrong, the church must take some extreme action. False prophets were not tolerated in Israel. Per BOWS44 you don't believe in the sufficiency of Scripture. I can better see why that would be a problem for you. Sir, I think I shall continue to commend the Scriptures to everyone. From it are the wellsprings of life. The potential problems of telling people to go sit somewhere until they hear God speak are enormous. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God... not voices, experiences, feelings, etc. The Word is fully sufficient to convict, compell, encourage, and build up. Thank you for taking the time to explain your position. Let us now shift from the mystical back to the topic of this forum: the study of the Word. In Him, Doc |