to born-again christians: do you honestly believe that God is limited only with the Bible?

Question

you keep on saying that God is alive today, but why do you limit God with just the Bible without considering the thought that He may still be speaking through people? can you please answer? i am really curious.

have you ever thought that God may still be talking to people through other people, and that He is continuously guiding His people?

when did God say that He will only speak through the Bible?

and if God did really say that He will only speak through the Bible, can you honestly say that you comprehend the Bible well?

Answer 1

Protestants who limit God to the bible have some screws loose in they're brains...just read John 21:25.

Answer 2

God does not say He will speak only through the Bible. If that were the case, we would never have gotten the Bible, since it first began as God speaking through someone else.

I would be very cautious though, of anyone claiming to have a 'special word' from God. It's possible, but not probable.

Also, while the Bible does give some examples of God speaking through people, those are very rare occasions.

We do know the Bible is God's Word. Therefore, if someone says something is from God, and it contradicts God's Word, then what they said cannot be from God.

To tell someone God is speaking through you is a very bold statement indeed. Someone who does that is claiming to be a Prophet of God. God gave us a test in Deuteronomy 20 to apply to those people. If what they say does not come true, then they do not speak for Him.

When God gave this world to his fledgling nation of Israel, he told them the punishment for daring to speak falsely in God's name was death. It was a very serious thing.

Unfortunately, too often people look for special word from God (which rarely, if ever, is actually from Him), and ignore the Word God has already given us, in the form of the Bible.

Answer 3

I Meditate to connect with what I call my inner guidance. It will answer any question that I ask.

Here is an example of what it says to me.

I am the ocean, you are the raindrops. We are the same. You raindrops, because of your similar size and location, see yourselves as separate, as units, as individuals. This perception of your selves has been your only reality since you were born in the clouds. You have no other perspective of your selves. As you fall through your short lives here, you see the ocean far below. On a certain level you understand that it and you are one and the same. You envy its magnificence. The thought comes,” I am water too, am I not also part of this magnificence?” Then you realize that you are but an insignificant raindrop. You can only look at that distant ocean in awe. The ocean with its timeless knowledge sees you quite differently. It sees you for what you really are. Its most precious children, bravely returning home to share the experience that ocean as a whole could never have experienced. The ocean has nothing but love for you. Because it understands that it is you, and that you are it. It knows only truth. Until the moment you reunite you can only speculate. The ocean's love for you is unconditional. It holds no foolish thought of punishing you for not falling quite right. It only waits with great patience for your homecoming.

The tiny collisions you had with the other drops on the way down, at the time seemed so significant. Often you feared that if you mingled with them too long you might get to close and in the process even lose your identity. All this because you understood your true identity not! You are ocean, you always were ocean, you always will be ocean. How you currently perceive yourself raindrop, snow flake, puddle, stream, River, or lake matters not. This is all illusion, only perception. You are ocean, you are spirit. You and I are one; we are the All That Is!

I hope this is of some help.

love and blessings Don

Answer 4

I'm a born again Christian and i believe that God works through us to help witness to others. I mean how do you think i became a Christian? Someone, somewhere was praying for me and I gave my heart to Jesus Christ. I don't limit God with just the Bible...God is everywhere around us. When i want to witness to people I just pray that I may say the right words that God would want me to say, and my prayer is answered...It's the Holy Spirit which works through us and I know from experience that it is real.

Answer 5

The Holy Bible Douay-Rheims Version

With Challoner Revisions 1749-52
1899 Edition of the John Murphy Company

IMPRIMATUR:
James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899.

Pope Damasus assembled the first list of books of the Bible at the Roman Council in 382 A.D. He commissioned St. Jerome to translate the original Greek and Hebrew texts into Latin, which became known as the Latin Vulgate Bible and was declared by the Church to be the only authentic and official version, in 1546.

The DR New Testament was first published by the English College at Rheims in 1582 A.D. The DR Old Testament was first published by the English College at Douay in 1609 A.D. The first King James Version was not published until 1611. This online DRV contains all 73 books, including the seven Deutero-Canonical books (erroneously called Apocrypha by Protestants). These seven books were included in the 1611 KJV, but not in later KJV Bibles.

The whole Douay-Rheims Bible was revised and diligently compared with the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749-1752 A.D. The notes included in the text were written by Dr. Challoner.

The DR Bible was photographically reproduced from the 1899 edition of the John Murphy Company, Baltimore, Maryland, by Tan Books in 1971. Eventually, this edition was optically scanned to produce a large text file which this publisher used for creating this website, with the aid of text-processing software.

One important goal of this project was to preserve the original text "as is", without making any changes in the wording, because the original text had the Imprimatur of James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, dated Sept 1st 1899.

The text file was checked quite thoroughly by software written by the publisher for punctuation errors and verses out of order. The index was humanly checked for misspelled words and the corrections were made to the text. However, some spelling errors may still be present in the text. Many verses were out of order in the original file. These have been corrected.

Every effort was made to ensure that this online version is an exact match to the original printed version. No words were added or ommitted from the text, except for correcting errors caused by the scanning process. No words were rearranged. No verse numbers were changed, except in the case of Psalm 9.

Psalm 9 originally contained 21 verses and there were 2 versions of Psalm 10, numbering 1-18 and 1-8. This obviously caused a conflict, so it was decided to make the first Psalm 10 as the last part of Psalm 9 and renumber the verses 22-39. This retains the same numbering as all the Douay Rheims. Note, in the Protestant Bibles the numbering of Psalms 10 through 146 differs by one.

Answer 6

Many scientific study have shown there's no longer something genetically related to being gay. There at the instant are not this type of genes. you weren't born gay. The study extra concluded the being gay is a found out trait. it somewhat is found out at even an early age. Being gay seems the vogue, popping out of the closet, being well-known via a team of human beings and drawing interest. The Bible is very particular approximately homosexuality, immoral sexually habit. Sodom & Gomorrah is a stable occasion. If human beings do no longer straighten out actual rapid it is going to ensue returned. As a Presbyterian Christian, because of the fact we are made in God's photograph i such as you as a brother yet i do unlike your existence variety. As born returned Christians we advance extra spiritually each and every day, grow to be extra Christ like. saying you're a born returned does not decrease it, tutor the international by your strikes which you're like Christ. not extra gay stuff is a stable initiate.

Answer 7

The Bible is the written Word of God. He has provided in it all we as people "need to know". He is so infinite in wisdom and knowledge that there are not enough volumes now or ever were in order to contain his thoughts. Faith requires taking the limited amount of information God has given us in the Bible and parley that into the hope of eternal life. We will know more later about God. We will know fully as we are fully known.

Answer 8

I'm not sure I understand your meaning. Do you mean that God still speaks to people, such as believers and guides them, instructs them, etc.? Yes, I agree. If you mean like, there are modern day prophets (such as Mormonism claims), no I do not believe that. Why? Because in the book of Hebrews there is a verse that goes something like, "in the days of old, God spoke through His prophets, but now, through His son, Jesus Christ....". I believe after Jesus, there were no more prophets, as in the Old Testament.

Answer 9

I think that you have the answer in your question, I personally do not limit GOD/JESUS to the Bible, I know that he is everywhere, and is alive today working through people for his own pleasure!!!!! However I do use the commandments and the epistles in the Bible for guidance and Faith because it is his words!!!

Hope this Helps!!!!!

Answer 10

Watch for a variety of answers that say..."God only speaks thru the bible because god says he will only speak thru the bible, in the bible"

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