Why do people claim to know the mind of God when all they have to go on is hearsay?

Question

I mean, unless you claim God actually "speaks" to you, you got nothing except some dead people's words and some books -- Bible, Quran, Dead Sea Scrolls, the Vedas, whatever. And I've got a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.

Answer 1

"Dead people's words and some books. . . ."

I think you answered your own question.

Answer 2

In the Bible, in James 1:5-it says that God will answer you if you ask.

Have you tried it?
I have....and I received an answer through the power of the Holy Ghost. No, God did not appear in a booming voice, but through the still, small voice in my heart. I felt such love that could have never come from within......at a time I no longer believed in God.

Swallow some pride....get on your knees....and find out for yourself.
I don't take ANYone's word for anything. I ask myself.

I hope that helps!
:)

Answer 3

God does speak to me but unless he tells me to tell you or anyone else what he says I am to use it for my self or if someone wants to know why things work for me I am to shine the light as to what makes a difference.The word of God to me is in the bible,a guide to follow but personally I stay with what Jesus said,God himself has spoken verbally 1 word to me and that was perseverance.I didn't even know what it meant,when I looked it up I was shocked and knew that I had really heard that from God.That word was for me.The other ways are in the Spirit.

Answer 4

How can hear say give so much in the way of math to know the birth and death dates of the bible people.

ABRAHAM
2083-25-Isaac-2108-60-
Jacob-2168-90-
Joseph-2258-110 dies-2368, end of Genesis,
2368-65-Job dies.
2433-80-Moses-2513 = covenant Heirs.
Trek 40-2553 Moses dies.
480-Solomon 1King 6:1; 3033 + 36 = 3069.
Judah kings-[390 years, 5 months =] 391st years to 3460 after Adam.
Can any one prove this wrong?
Gen 12:4; Abraham is age 75[born year 2008 is 2 years after Noah dies],
Abraham in 2083, gets the covenant, is age 100[or 25 years later],
Isaac born Gen.21:5; in 2108 at age 180 years, dies.
Isaac age 60 when sons born. 25:24-26; Isaac died 2288.
Jacob 2168 + 130 Gen.47:9; Is in Rameses Egypt 2298[less 2083 = 215 in Canaan];
Jacob 2298 + 17 years he dies Gen.47:28; 2315 after Adam.
2298 [Joseph was age 40 of 110 = ] 70 = 2368 dies Gen.50:26; End of Genesis.
Exodus 7:7; 12:40,41; 430 years after covenant to Abraham in 2083 = 2513, Moses is
age 80 and was born 2433 or 65 years after Joseph dies. He is 4th generation after
Jacob = Gen.15:13,16; Exo.6:16-23.26;

Answer 5

You know when someone speaks the mind of the Lord when you have the Holy Ghost bear testimony that what they are saying is the will and mind of the Lord.

Answer 6

You know what GOD stands for, right? Can you order dinner for your wife? Can you buy lingere for your wife? Can you pick out a family car without having your wife present??? Do you know whether or not you have to stear clear of your wife when it's her time of the month? Do you pretty much know not to offer your buddy that doesn't drink a cold one when he visits?

You know, Jesus said that to know him was to know the Father (or vice versa, I forget). Apparently they were like minded gentlemen.

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Answer 7

Some would claim that since we are created in His image, we know the mind of God.
As a christian, knowing and believing in my Savior Christ Jesus, I know that it is not possible for me to know the "mind" of God, but I know His Will for me instead.

Answer 8

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There is Only Light.

Light Is All There Is.

All That Is Is Light

The subjective Nature of Light is Self-Radiant Being, Transendental Consciousness, or Consciousness Itself.

The Subjective Nature of Light Is God, or Truth.

When Light, or God, Is Objectified To Itself, It Appears As The Cosmic Mandala (Five Pointed Star at the Center) Of all conditional worlds, forms, and beings.

Thus, Light, or God, Utterly Pervades all conditional worlds, forms, and beings.

All conditional worlds, forms, and beings Thus Inhere In, Are Lived or Sustained By, Are Not Other Than, and Can Directly Realize A State Of Perfect Identification With Light, or God.

Light, or God, Is The Literal or Inherent Condition, Substance, Reality, Quality, and Destiny Of all conditional worlds, forms, and beings.

Light, or God, Is Never Absolutely Objectified, Nor Does Any Apparent Modification Of Light, or God, As any conditional world, form, or being, Qualify or Really Limit The Subjective Nature Of Light, or God.

Even though Light, or God, May Appear To Be Objectively Modified and Limited As and By conditional worlds, forms, and beings, The Subjective Nature Of Light, or God, Remains As Always Already Free Being, Inherent and Undiminished Consciousness, and Self-Radiant Bliss.

Therefore, The Cosmic Mandala, or any conditional world, form, or being, Need Not Evolve Perfectly, Fulfill itself Perfectly, Be Utterly Purified or Released, or Even Come To An End For Light, God, or The Real Condition to be Realized.

For Light, God, or The Real Condition To Be Realized, It Is Only Necessary For The Subjective Nature Of Light, God, or The Real Condition To Be Realized.

The Way of Realization of Light, God, The Real Condition, Truth, Bliss, or Happiness Is Not The Search For Fulfillment or Release In The Context Of Objectified Light, or God (Which is The Context Of The Cosmic Mandala, or conditional worlds, forms, and beings), but It Is To Identify With The Subjective Nature Of Light, or God (Which Is Always Prior To The Cosmic Mandala, or all conditional worlds, forms, and beings).

Consciousness (Which Is That To Which and In Which conditional worlds, forms, thoughts, beings, and self Are arising As Apparent Modifications Of Objectified Light, or God) Is Light, or God Itself.

Consciousness Is The Subjective Nature Of Light, Energy, or God.

Consciousness Is The Subjective Nature Of The Cosmic Mandala and all conditional worlds, forms, thoughts, and beings, including one's own self.

Consciousness Is Self-radiant Bliss, Happiness, or Unqualified Beings.

Consciousness Is That In Which or As Which any being Always Already Stands.

Therefore, To Identify With Consciousness Is Also To Realize Freedom, Eternal Being, Bliss, Happiness, and Love (or The Self-Radiant Nature Of Light, Energy, or God).

whatever arises conditionally or objectively is Only An Apparent, Temporary, and Illusory Modification Of Light, energy, Bliss, Love, or God.

Whatever May Appear To Be The Case objectively (Even In such a subtle form as thought) Is Only Light, or God, Appearing To Be Objectified (or Appearing As conditions), but It Is Thus Appearing Only To Itself and As Itself.

If, In The Context Of any objective event or condition (including thought), The Consciousness To Which and In Which that event or condition Is arising Is Located (As The Native and blissful Feeling Of Being Itself), The that objective event or condition Is Inherently and Perfectly Transcended In The Subjective nature or Reality or Condition of Light, or God.

Consciousness, or Light, or God, Is Bliss, Always Already Free, Never Changing.

All Modifications (all changes or conditions) Are Merely Apparent, or Illusory.

Apparent Modifications (or changes or conditions) Do Not Change Consciousness, Light, or God, Except Apparently, From the point of view Of The Modification (or the condition, or conditional being) Itself.

All conditional Modifications Are Illusory or Non-Binding appearances In The Objective (or Objectified) Aspect, Nature, Appearance, or Illusion Of Light, or God.

To Identify With Consciousness (Prior To world, form, mind, others, or self) Is To Realize The Subjective or Prior Nature and Reality Of Light, or God.

The phenomenal or conditional worlds Are Neither Necessary Nor Binding.

The arising Of phenomenal or conditional Existence Carries With it No Command or Implication Of Necessary Involvement On The Part Of The Subjective Being.

We Are Always Already Free To Identify With The Subjective Nature Of Reality and Thus To Transcend objective or conditional Existence Itself, As Well As Any Apparent Implication, Tendency, or Need For Involvement In It.

In The Realization Of The Subjective Nature Of Light, or God, all apparent or objective Light-changes Are Inherently Recognized and Transcended In The Free Bliss Of Light, or God.

To Realize Light (or To Be Literally Enlightened), or To Realize God (or To Be One With The Only One Who Is), Is To Be Transcendental Consciousness, or Transcendental Light, The Substance Of Existence, The Real Condition Of Existence, or Happiness Itself.

Liberation Through god-Realization (or Direct Identification With The Subjective Truth or Condition Of Existence) Is Senior To (and Makes Obsolete) Any Effort Of the conditional self To Be Lawful, Purified, Evolved, Fulfilled, Ended, or Released.

This Is The Seed-Essence and Import Of Religion and Esotericism.

This Is The See-Essence Of My Teaching and The Way That I Teach.

The Persuasiveness Of This Argument Rests On An Understanding Of Light Itself, An Understanding That Is Even Common To Mankind In this epoch informed by the theories and discoveries of modern science.

The Persuasiveness Of This Argument Does Not Rest On arbitrary, historical, or controversial systems of belief and conditional proof.

The Argument Is Persuasive Because It Rests On The Obvious, and It Is, Therefore, Irrefutable.

The Truth Of This Argument Is Self-Evident.

The Efficacy Of This Argument Can Be Demonstrated Only by The Direct and Real Process Of Realization Itself.

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Chapter Six, My Heart-Truth Is Obvious and Irrefutable

The Dawn Horse Testament of Heart Master Da Free John (Adi Da Samraj)