Bible Question: Help. My faith isn't shaken, but I'm suddenly questioning everything that brought me to God. Someone posted their testamony on another board yesterday. It was amazing and left me in awe. The man said that while driving to work, he was lifted up out of his car by a bright light and found himself in heaven in front of God. He said that God showed him heaven and then gave him the ability for a moment to think like God so he could understand the reasoning behind everything God created. He said that God told him if he believed in His Son, all that would be his. Then he found himself back in the car, stopped in the middle of a freeway. This supposedly is a man that didn't believe and at the urging of some friends was baptised anyway. He thought the whole thing a joke until this happened. The more I got to thinking about this last night, the more I got to doubting the more subtle things in my life that I attribute to God. I started questioning whether I wanted God to be behind the things that happened and therefore just believed it to be so. I couldn't sleep last night it upset me so. I've worried about it all morning. The things I felt sure where God are suddenly in question for me. I don't like it. |
Bible Answer: Hi Chynna, there are some good responses to your question. I would like to remind you of one thing. It is understood that Christ came to fulfill the law and the prophets. And that he did. The days of new testimonies or revelations, such as what the individual has mentioned, have ceased. The bible is clear that what we have is sufficient. Just like to parable of the rich man and Lazarus, the rich man asked Abraham to send someone from heaven to his brothers to warn them about hell. What did Abraham answer? He said it was IMPOSSIBLE, and that they have the law and the prophets to save them. That is clear to me. The law and the prohpets is the Holy Word of God. That is the testimony to us. To say that additional testimony can come from God is in disagreemant with what Jesus mentioned in his parable. We have the book, and that is sufficient. What happened to that man is not from God. I beleive that because it is clear that the testimony of Jesus Christ is complete, and we are now living in a period of grace. I don't care what visions or miracles I or anyone else sees. I am thankful that I have God's Word, the Bible, and that is all I need. You must also remember that God said that the devil is able to show great signs and wonders, even that he will be able to call down fire from Heaven. Anything that pulls us away from the Word of God, or that forces us to think of the Holy Spirit in a physical sense, is not from God. Even if something makes you beleive God is calling you, if that something causes you to look on earth for signs of God, that is very dangerous. God is very much spiritual, look for God's spirit, not visions or signs. |