This is kinda strange to me how people are so quick to shun away from this concept. Wouldnt you think God still cares about the people this day as he did of old and want to reveal the truth unto us?
2007-10-06 21:43:45 · 12 answers · asked by Stetson R 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I would have thought believing in one from an Arab in the desert two thousand years ago would have been harder.
2007-10-06 21:50:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I experienced God directly when I was seventeen.
It didn't make me a saint, or a guru. It did change my life for the better in incredible ways.
I don't sell any books, have a group, belong to a religion, or think I am better (the experience pretty much made that impossible to do).
I don't wonder any more. People want what matches their self-image and the image of the universe that supports that.
Some just want proof, and the only proof I have of my experience are a few odd abilities and the memory, which is personal proof for me, but hardly proof for others on any standard (nor do they owe me belief, as such an expectation on my part is unjustified and actually rather silly).
However, here is the interesting thing. We have these amazing stories. Note, that in almost all of them, the people around the stories always seem to doubt the veracity of the individuals!
What makes us think the events were any more common back then? Putting all recorded encounters with God(s) together on a timeline you have VAST areas and distances between them. Of course people didn't believe, even back then. That's why it's still so hard for the Catholic Church to beautify someone, or make them a saint.
It's sad that such knowledge and experience goes to waste, but in truth, it doesn't. I share what I know with my wife and close friends. It changes their lives. I raise my daughter using it. At age 23 months she speaks in five word sentences she creates herself, counts to thirteen, knows her alphabet by sight and song, and is VERY physically fit.
And my own life has been filled with happiness and love, in in difficult events. My daughter will affect those around herself, and my wife and friends affect others as well.
Sometimes God works very subtly, and his touch is like that of a tender of children, who, seeing that a child is stuck, waits until the child has tried (experimented) with every possible way to get free, and then, just before the child gives up, sneaks up and moves the object trapping them JUST ENOUGH to allow the child to start trying again, and thus, learning again. The tender repeats the process until the child gets themselves free.
The child doesn't become dependent on the tender, giving up until the tender does the work for them because they've SEEN the tender do it before, and expect them to do it again.
Such is the hand of God.
2007-10-07 05:21:28 · answer #2 · answered by mckenziecalhoun 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have no problems with modern day revelation, I only have problems with false doctrines that are offered up in the name of Modern day revelations. Some of the gifts of the Spirit as promised to the New Testament church are the gifts of revelation, healing, prophecy, discernment etc.
Often times I think we need the gift of discernment far more than revelation. I have seen many churches accept some of the most ridiculous, outrageous, and opposite of the scriptures doctrines in the name of latter day revelation just because they believe their latter day prophet-seer-revelator who claim to be a prophet.
God is unchanging, He does not even have a shadow of variableness, nor does He walk in crooked paths. Therefore if God spoke to mankind in days past, He certainly can and has spoken to mankind today. On the same token, He is not going to oppose Himself and say this behavior is OK, then it is bad, then it is OK, then it is bad again.
Isa 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Matt. 24: 11, 24
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
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24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
In reply to Set asking for a latter day revelation, here is a portion of one, guess where I got it from?
"For behold, at that day shall he rage in the hearts of the children of men, and stir them up to anger against that which is good. And others will he pacify, and lull them away into carnal security, that they will say: All is well in Zion; yea, Zion prospereth, all is well—and thus the devil cheateth their souls, and leadeth them away carefully down to hell. And behold, others he flattereth away, and telleth them there is no hell; and he saith unto them: I am no devil, for there is none—and thus he whispereth in their ears, until he grasps them with his awful chains, from whence there is no deliverance."
2007-10-07 05:01:16 · answer #3 · answered by Technoman 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, given that most 'modern day revelation' consists of some person saying "God told me this!", I'd find it pretty hard to believe, too. It'd mean I would have to take somebody at their word that they were actually speaking to God, and not just the voices in their own head.
2007-10-07 04:48:28 · answer #4 · answered by nobody important 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, could ya provide a few examples of modern day revelations?
2007-10-07 04:55:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason it's so hard for you to believe in Ra, Vishnu, or Thor.
2007-10-07 05:17:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, he only cares about the people that believe in him.
2007-10-07 04:46:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
We have the full Bible to read and follow and God has everything in it for us and no need for any human revelations that do not come from the Bible
2007-10-07 04:48:44 · answer #8 · answered by Wally 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Because they dont want to hear from God. If they did they would be listening to His Apostles today.
2007-10-07 05:06:03 · answer #9 · answered by Avatar_defender_of_the_light 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
wasn't he supposed to show up on the millennium, according to those psychics we saw on television?
what happened to them?
2007-10-07 04:48:00 · answer #10 · answered by Follow The 9 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋