Peace to you,
2timothy316 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 2:50 pm
tam wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 2:37 pm
He speaks in words. He speaks in visions. He speaks in dreams. He can also bring to mind something learned, read, or experienced in the past to help me see the truth in something He is teaching me. He has opened my eyes to something that is written, if I am reading the bible. He can and has read to me something that He is written to have said, so that I hear it in His voice. That was enlightening.
Sometimes when I am responding to something that someone else has asked, He will give me the words to say, or reveal something to me (as in open my heart and ears to understanding something) that I had not previously understood.
The language that He speaks is truth. He has never spoken anything to me that was not true, and that was not from love. And everything He teaches me deepens my understanding of love: His love and the love of His Father.
I will add that He also teaches by asking questions (just as He did with His apostles and disciples a couple thousand years ago). That is a powerful method of teaching.
Then why aren't all of you claim this same thing teaching the same thing? Why are there hundreds of different teachings? Why do some of you who say Jesus speaks to you in the ways you mentioned kill each other saying Jesus told them to do it? There are numerous people who think as you do, why is what Jesus teaching is teaching you superior to what he supposedly teaching others?
I answered this question in post 26.
But let me ask you a question:
How would you answer those questions regarding religion? Should I dismiss all religion - including your own - because religion does not teach the same thing, because there are hundreds of different teachings in religions (including those religions that claim to be the true religion), because religious people kill other religious people, saying "jesus" told them to do it?
Also, you still have not answer my biggest question, what did Jesus teach that was not in the Bible while he was on Earth?
Because I am not sure why you keep asking me that question considering what I wrote (in brackets) in post 29.
Though Christ did correct some things from scripture (such as the law on divorce) - telling people what was true from the beginning, but that Moses made allowance for the hard hearts of the people. So that a person listening to Christ knows that one cannot divorce (and remarry) without committing adultery, except on the grounds of unfaithfulness. But if a person chooses to listen to Moses over Christ, then a person might be just fine with divorce. Even though God does state in scripture that He hates divorce.
Christ also showed mercy to the woman caught in adultery, saving her life and keeping her from being stoned. "Let He who is without sin cast the first stone." This is in keeping with what God truly desires, "I desire mercy, not sacrifice." (Hosea 6:6). But the law permitted such a woman to be stoned, even appears at times to command it. So if a person was not listening to Christ to know what was true and what God truly desired, they might be okay with casting the first (or any) stone (or whatever the law of the land permitted at any given time instead of actual stoning).
The point is, as it has been from the start, that people listen to the bible and study it, but that does not mean that they are obeying or even believing Christ (the true Word of God, the Truth, the Light). Or that they even know Him (or His Father). Because it is from
knowing Christ that one knows His Father also.
Christ is the authority over the Church. Not the bible.
(Edited to add: I am not a slave of "Jesus". I am a slave of Christ Jaheshua. Names are important, and my Lord's name is Jaheshua.)
Peace again to you, and to your loved ones,
your servant and a slave of Christ,
tammy