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How does God speak?

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  • #62
    antiskeptic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,555 ✭✭✭antiskeptic


    Lavinia wrote: »
    Well, as I see it, the words in the Bible are written down by man. nobody can negate that fact.
    So it was "the voice of God" heard by some man/men in the past.
    So God talked to them via/through them, or through their visions, or voice etc..

    Good point. Some non-scriptural special pleading from sola scripturalists to come?


  • #63
    Lavinia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,102 ✭✭✭Lavinia


    Well it was also written - Haven't I told you - you are the Gods...


  • #64
    Lavinia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,102 ✭✭✭Lavinia


    In relation to this:
    Lavinia wrote: »
    Well, as I see it, the words in the Bible are written down by man. nobody can negate that fact.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/bible-discovery-pottery-earliest-version-israel-a6980006.html


  • #65
    alma73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭alma73


    God speaks directly to us. For example take Mother Teresa.

    On the dusty train to Darjeeling, Mother Teresa heard a "call within call" --- "I was sure it was God's voice. The message was clear. I must leave the convent to help the poor by living with them. This was a command, something to be done. Something definite. I knew where I had to be. But I did not know to get there." To serve the "poorest of the poor" was her idea. This was her hedgehog concept that would serve her for the rest of her life.

    The sacred Scriptures of the Church are pivotal to understand God, however in them one must understand Gods call in his/her life and follow it. Always good to have a spiritual director to help you understand the it is indeed God talking and not the other fella.


  • #66
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,861 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    I was thinking on that young girl from my home town who died in that earthquake last week.

    She was 33. Dedicated her life to God, went off to be a nun, yet (if you believe he exists) felt the need to kill her in an earthquake. What did she do to deserve this? What purpose did her death serve?


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  • #67
    EirWatcher
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    NIMAN wrote: »
    I was thinking on that young girl from my home town who died in that earthquake last week.

    She was 33. Dedicated her life to God, went off to be a nun, yet (if you believe he exists) felt the need to kill her in an earthquake. What did she do to deserve this? What purpose did her death serve?

    God "feels the need" to kill us all someday. What purpose does anyone's death serve? God chooses the time and place and the circumstances. We only choose how to respond. How she responded in her final moments, how she was prepared to meet her maker, how many others she saved during the incident, we don't know.
    What we do know is that we would not have heard of her, and her life of selfless love and devotion, had she died otherwise.

    It is a dangerous business for us to start declaring how people should die.


  • #68
    recedite
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    EirWatcher wrote: »
    What we do know is that we would not have heard of her, and her life of selfless love and devotion, had she died otherwise.
    Well, next time you are speaking with the big guy, would you mind mentioning to Him that I am quite happy living my life in relative obscurity.


  • #69
    antiskeptic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,555 ✭✭✭antiskeptic


    EirWatcher wrote: »
    God "feels the need" to kill us all someday. What purpose does anyone's death serve? God chooses the time and place and the circumstances. We only choose how to respond. How she responded in her final moments, how she was prepared to meet her maker, how many others she saved during the incident, we don't know.
    What we do know is that we would not have heard of her, and her life of selfless love and devotion, had she died otherwise.

    It is a dangerous business for us to start declaring how people should die.

    Is there a scriptural basis for God choosing the time and circumstances of a person's death. In the sense of that being universally applied. It strikes me as problematic that idea: smoking doesn't actually cause cancer unless God decides that in this particular instance it will and in another not?


  • #70
    solodeogloria
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,739 ✭✭✭solodeogloria


    Good afternoon antiskeptic,

    Why are you insisting on a Scriptural basis on this?

    I thought you weren't convinced that God speaks primarily and most clearly in His Word?

    Much thanks in the Lord Jesus Christ,
    solodeogloria


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