if the bible was told to seemingly ordinary people by god then how come ?

Question

the newer people who say they have spoken with god and who say god has told them some wisdom. are looked at as nuts and fruit cakes and called satanic? because they think god spoke to them?
they werent prohets until God told them to write a book for the bible right? so wheres all the people he has spoken to since?
(or did he?)(were they just nuts too its just that everyone was nuts back then so they belived it?)

if he did say i wont say anymore, what if he changed his mind?

i tend to side with its all a great work of fiction myself

i was just wondering

so acording to you Boaz I"m a prophet!
i dream things and they happen i speek thing will happen and they do i can thik to myself this person should get better and they do ect...... i can do what you listed! and my books have gotten ritacule. thanks i never knew i was a great prophet! lol

Answer 1

WAAAYYYY too much wine...i think a burning bush talked to me when i was on acid...i know i talked to a car....if I was uneducated...or didnt know what the drugs i had just taken were going to do, I would probably claim it was god and not just the voices in my head...if i didnt know better........

Answer 2

In simplistic terms, God likes to recruit rookies with no experience. He does not like know-it-alls who have a bulb up their head, constantly lit. He says that he will make the wisdom of the wise to look foolish. There are several examples of this. Normal Fishermen wrote the 3 gospels except Luke.

People have added new stuff - Judas, some other new world Bible, etc. Nothing is original. There are 66 books in the Bible. It ends with a disclaimer that nothing should be added to it or he who adds to it will be punished.

Current prophets who are mainly T.V evangelists (not all of them are honest, most are having a bad reputation) but as long as they preach the word of God and are not commercial - money minded, God speaks to them. I am not talking about those who live in luxury and fly chartered jets just for the heck of it.

John wrote his book on the island of Patmos where the Revelation (of the future - the battle for Israel and Jerusalem) was opened to him by the Holy Spirit. He was not on drugs, I assure you, because now Israel is going through its birth pangs. And the European union has gone beyond 10 nations (already said in the Bible) In the end days, China and Russia will gather its armies in the Middle East along with the Arab nations to fight Israel. The Battle of Armageddon will destroy 3/4 of these armies. Only a 1/4 will be left to run back home, each person to his own country to tell the others how barely they survived with their life.

Also, in the end times, the Anti-Christ will reign. He will come from within the European union. He will give every man and woman a number - like the social security number we have now. Only that the number will be etched into your right arm and forehead. You will be like a barcode product.

The govt. can scan your number to know your history, crime records, medical records, etc all stored on a chip inside your arm and on your forehead. You cannot purchase food or sell products if you dont have this number. Revelation (in the Bible) says this in the 13th or 14th chapter.

Number 666 is the name of a man. Can you solve it? Only the wise man can. I don't think anyone has solved this Biblical mystery yet. So I take it no one (not even) the evangelical TV ministers are wise enough to solve the 666 puzzle. (and no its not OMEN - the movie).

If this doesn't happen then the Bible is written by fruitcakes and soda pops.

Answer 3

Well, most people who claim God has spoken to them and revealed anything of as much importance to the faith as the bible is usually termed a Gnostic. They have been around for centuries, and there are almost as many different types as there are believers, seeing how they can all claim that God has told them, say, that on the third tuesday of every month, the forty seven mysteries shrouded within the high principalities are revealed to the great elders, or something pretty whacky like that. The reason why people aren't still writing the bible is because God has already laid the foundations for his church, and now he has told his church to grow upon these foundations, not make new ones.
However, there are still prophets, or should I say, prophesies, but the church does not really need prophets for guidance, so modern prophesies aren't ones that affect all of Christendom, or anything.
Also, God very rarely changes his mind. If he does, then everyone it will affect will know.

Answer 4

The Bible has the signature of God attached to it in many ways. One of those ways is Bible prophecy. The old testament has 333 prophecies about the first coming of Jesus Christ and 456 specific details about his life(all written between 400 and 200 years before he was born). The 4 gospels in the new testament(Mathew, Mark, Luke & John) tell the story of jesus. Had those 4 gospel writers chosen to not write their gospels, we could still have re-created the whole life of Christ just from the old testament(all written before he was born). In fact, that is how the christians preached the gospel in the first 20-30 years arter the death of christ. They preached it from the old testament because the new testament had not yet been written. Man sees history like a person sees the Rose Parade sitting in the stands. The floats that have already gone by him are like the past. The floats in front of him are like the present. The floats still coming are like the future. These prophets in the old testament who wrote about Jesus Christ seemed to be able to see history the way you would see the Rose Parade from a helicopter. They seemed to be able to see the end from the beginning. That tells me that though they were writing these things down the info was not ultimately coming from them but from a higher source because man simply doesn't see history that way. Also, the bible has amazing knowledge about many scientific principals long before these principals were discovered. Seventeen times in the old testament the bible says that God is "stretching the heavens". For thousands of years bible scholar struggles with what that could possibly mean. Then in 1929 Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe was expanding. The bible told us that long ago.
No other religion or Holy Book has this king of knowledge. All this tells me that these prophets in both the old and new testament were not nutcases but true prophets of God. These people who today say that God spoke to them only give us one way to know whether they've truly heard from God, namely, THEY SAY SO.
I certainly have no way to know. For all I know they may have had too much pizza the night before.

Answer 5

The Apostle Paul stated in 1 Corinthians that the purpose of prophets is to edify and direct the Church. I believe there are still prophets today, and I also believe God speaks to people in many ways, shapes, and forms. To some, He'll speak as they read the scriptures; to some, as they pray; to some, in dreams (read about the prophets in the Old Testament...some had visions in their sleep...today we call them dreams, and when they actually happen, they're brushed off as "deja vu"...but who's to say they're not prophets?).
But don't think that fortune-tellers are prophets, because notice, not all prophets told of the future. In fact, one of the main purposes of the prophet was to guide the Church back from their backsliding. When they're falling away from the Lord, the prophet is called in to call them back to the Lord.
I understand that the reason people are shunned when they say they "hear God's voiice" audibly is b/c that's also a common symptom of mental illness.
So no, I don't believee we're nuts & fruits if we believe in prophets today. But I also think it's a shame that so many who claim to be prophets today use their supposed gifts to claim glory to themselves. That's one way you can tell if they're fakes, b/c a real prophet will bring glory only to God. Also, many prophets go through Hell to get out the truth that nobody wants to hear.

Answer 6

God calls His prophets as witnesses and gives them instructions for his flocks. To confirm that it is God and not some demon who sent them, God would give them miraculous signs and wonders: they walk on water, the heal the sick, open blind eyes, --"Those signs shall follow them."
Signs to know prophets of God:
1. The world hates them and tries to persecutes them.
2. They have unnatural wisdom and they love and care for the ordinary folks.
3. They feed the poor and hungry.
4. When they pray for people with incurable diseases--those diseases disappear.
5. The lame will walk when they pray for them.
6. The blind will see.
7. God speaks through them so that whatever they say will come to pass.
8. The establishment tries to confiscate, suppress, and or to burn their books--for a while, but are never able to.
Boaz.

Answer 7

Actually there are quite a few Christian circles that have no problem with the idea that God is still speaking to his people and I don't have a problem with that idea either. I think it's when people start getting specific and random like "God wants you to give me your wallet and He told me that I must only wear purple jumpsuits" that make people look pretty crazy. But you might look perfectly sane saying something like "You know, I pray a lot, and this decision has been weighing on me a lot and so I presented it to God and I prayed about it every day for weeks and I really felt He was calling me to leave my job and become a missionary in Africa". Something like that is hard to make fun of, and it's hard to argue that it definitely isn't from God. Because to me, that's pretty much the SORT of thing that God probably would say, in my understanding of God anyway. So maybe God is still speaking to people, for example whenever those who pray a lot begin to do more and more Godly things with their lives...

Answer 8

God speaks to people all the time. He speaks to me. Now, am I a prophet of God? No. Every believer has communication with God, sometimes in a variety of ways. When it comes to scripture, the "canon" was considered closed long ago. There are no more revelations to scripture, no matter what the Mormons may say. In fact, the bible warned about adding to scripture, as they have. Exceedingly dangerous.

Answer 9

You are making a generalized statement when you say that "the newer people who say they have spoken with god and who say god has told them some wisdom. are looked at as nuts and fruit cakes and called satanic".

People at my church, myself included hear from God from time to time. No one doubts us or calls us those types of names because when we hear from God it is in accordance with what's already been written in the Bible.

It's when people get a "new revelation" that contradicts the written word of God that satanic influences are suspected. God doesn't change, nor does He contradict Himself, but the deceiver often masquerades as God and so do his ministers pretend to be men of God.

2 Corinthians 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

Answer 10

The Bible was compiled by the most powerful people in the world at the time. The idea that they were humble commoners is utter nonsense.

Humble commoners didn't even know how to read and write.

Answer 11

some are still around but classified as being non- canonical and are hard to find copies of.
The Old testament was written when people were more Farmers and Sheppard's . Also semi nomadic as they followed the seasons to move their flocks to the best possible pasture for the season.