Can you know God without the knowledge in the book?

Question

Without either hearing it from someone else or reading it yourself.

Can you get the holy spirit thing and learn all about the rituals and dogma that the god wants just through knowing God and having no knowledge from the book.

I mean in isolation with no religious figureheads telling you what to do.

would the boy and girl in the Blue Lagoon have baptized each other?

Answer 1

I guess it would depend on what my parents beliefs were. If i was alone ( without parents ) , I would probably forage for food and build a shelter, roam around surviving until the Great mountain started bellowing smoke and spewing red hot vomit scared the crap out of me, making me realize I could use this natural occurrence to benifit ME. I would then seek out other people to show the Great Mountain to and tell them that I know the wisdom of the Mountain and have seen it's wrath and I alone know what makes him happy or unhappy. So...Do "MY" bidding,... um err "HIS" bidding or he will make more big noise and smoke and on and on. Now get me a beer for my sharing this with you ....and by the way I need 3 bison skins and some fire wood to keep him happy...next week I'll tell you some more of his rules.

Answer 2

Only through the Bible can you get to know God and what He wants.Before scripture ,God would talk either directly,or through visions but now that scripture is complete,that doesn't happen anymore.
One big problem is that without scripture,men make up all kinds of baloney dogma.The Jewish heirarchy did that and so did and does the Catholic church.
That's why when Jesus would say,"It is written that,such and such,But I say unto you.."
He wasn't referring to the scriptures but to the commentaries on the scriptures where man would put his own spin for his own good on it.Jesus would bring them back to the original intention.The "Spirit of the Law" rather than the letter.
That's why it is important to read the scripture and "rightly divide it".That's how you get to know God.
Paul said "Faith comes by hearing,hearing the word of God".

Answer 3

Well first off reading the BOOK helps out, but yes you can know God with out knowing the book. There are many stories in the book about this. Mosses for one. The book is different then a relationship with God. You relationship with him is personal and untainted by time or translation. The book guides us to be better then our selves, but only through his grace. Knowing God on a personal level may even inspire you to read The Book and carry out his works through out your daily life. There are many people out there that will give you their take on the book, but in the end it is what you get out of it that counts the most.

Answer 4

,Their are no rituals or dogma to get to God that is why He is so perfect and good. Someone who never comes in contact with another human can know God sometimes better than some of the people on here because they see Him all around them. Some people only see Him when they are given good things or life is all roses.

Answer 5

OK, half that stuff I have no clue what you're talking about, but if you're asking if you need the Bible to know God, it would help considering he wrote it through men and it has all the historical information you need to know about his relationship with mankind. In the mean time, you can find God in nature, and there's tons of information about God out there, although a lot of it isn't true, that isn't the Bible. You really need the Bible though, it has a bulk of the information, God's power is not locked up in a book, but he can speak to you through it.

Answer 6

Well, if I were thinking in Christian terms, I would say yes.

Jesus said that he OR God could save a person.

Jesus also said that more people outside of Israel would enter heaven than those within Israel...and most people were pagan at the time.

And thirdly, In Matthew 19:18 Jesus named the six laws to follow that would get a person into heaven (but not at the right hand of God, however)...and those six laws are easily followed by any "Good Person". (Don't kill, don't steal, don't falsely accuse, don't cheat on your spouse, honor your parents, and be nice to one another.) In order to be special and sit at the right hand of God, one needed to give up everything, family and possessions, and follow Jesus.

Answer 7

It seems such as you attempt to insinuate that an affidavit of the existence of God relies upon on components different than the Bible, mutually as the Bible itself is particularly sparkling that that's no longer the case. certainly, the e book of Mormon and different scriptures of the LDS faith would desire to be while in comparison with the early Catholic philosophy in an exceedingly naive way, and are themselves fairly controversial among Catholics, for this very reason. the subject with such 'greater advantageous' texts is that the place they make stronger the Bible, they're as ridiculous as that's, and the place they (marginally) oppose it, they're, via the logic of the Bible itself, heretical. yet then, via the logic of the previous testomony, i'd recommend that the hot testomony (surprisingly the words of Christ) is heretical.

Answer 8

Doubtful. Most pagan religions just take human ideas and project them out. As we are reflections of Him, they can't help but be at least somewhat accurate. But without direct communication from God, we really can't know much truth about Him. How much do you know about my cat?

Answer 9

YES!!! i have never read the bible and i KNOW !!! and nobody has ever "forced" there opinion on me either.....it woulndt have been hard though cause how could a person NOT want to be loved unless they are a totally negative person.

Answer 10

God came first and the book came after