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So I am a bit confused as to the relationship between God's written Word and the words he speaks to us in prayer or daily in our lives.
I read the Bible pretty often, lead a Bible study where the prime directive is letting the written Word change us...and I am not downplaying the Bible or its glorious power...
But now, I have come into an enigma somewhat...I am unsure the relationship between God's words said in prayer or daily to us and the supremacy of the Bible.
To some extant, I think the Bible lends itself to this dilemma. When Abraham was asked to sacrifice his son Isaac, as Kierkeguard notes, I believe God was asking him to go beyond written ethics or words and obey the living Voice of God...
See as most Christians feel the Holy Spirit moving them to say or do something, and changing them to be more like Jesus, I do things from time to time that make little sense to me or to anybody else...but I do them and I say that "God has called me to do such and such."
Now I know everyone probably has had some crazy person say they felt God calling them to do something that obviously God has not called them to do (Interesting to think of what people might have told Abraham here. Or Noah.), and I am wondering over how careful we as Christians should be as not to say God has called us to do something that he hasn't called us to...
And I kind of want to qualify when I speak and say "I FEEL" God has called me to do such and such...but am uncertain how that is that much different from just laying it out there and saying God told me to do this...
Do you ever get perplexed--not in an evil way--but in an uncertain way about the outcomes of what you initially knew God called you to do but then started thinking maybe that was just your thoughts?
I know what God speaks to us can never contradict scripture...but am just wondering if the daily words god speaks to us have the same authority as what most people consider the inerrant Word of God--the Bible.
God bless
tony
I read the Bible pretty often, lead a Bible study where the prime directive is letting the written Word change us...and I am not downplaying the Bible or its glorious power...
But now, I have come into an enigma somewhat...I am unsure the relationship between God's words said in prayer or daily to us and the supremacy of the Bible.
To some extant, I think the Bible lends itself to this dilemma. When Abraham was asked to sacrifice his son Isaac, as Kierkeguard notes, I believe God was asking him to go beyond written ethics or words and obey the living Voice of God...
See as most Christians feel the Holy Spirit moving them to say or do something, and changing them to be more like Jesus, I do things from time to time that make little sense to me or to anybody else...but I do them and I say that "God has called me to do such and such."
Now I know everyone probably has had some crazy person say they felt God calling them to do something that obviously God has not called them to do (Interesting to think of what people might have told Abraham here. Or Noah.), and I am wondering over how careful we as Christians should be as not to say God has called us to do something that he hasn't called us to...
And I kind of want to qualify when I speak and say "I FEEL" God has called me to do such and such...but am uncertain how that is that much different from just laying it out there and saying God told me to do this...
Do you ever get perplexed--not in an evil way--but in an uncertain way about the outcomes of what you initially knew God called you to do but then started thinking maybe that was just your thoughts?
I know what God speaks to us can never contradict scripture...but am just wondering if the daily words god speaks to us have the same authority as what most people consider the inerrant Word of God--the Bible.
God bless
tony