I've been told God quit speaking to people after the Bible was written

     Back a ways in time, I was told several times by devout Christians that God stopped speaking directly to people after the Bible was written. I wondered how they might feel if God started speaking directly to them?

     I recently accepted a friend request from someone who is friends with a few of my Facebook friends. His profile shows he lives in the western area of Birmingham.

    He posted on his Facebook timeline this past Sunday.

Jeff 

June 11 at 7:40 PM  · 

What’s on my mind tonight,

How God Speaks to Us

Psalm 25:14

“The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.“

When my grandkids were smaller, I took them to “secret” places. For instance, I’d tell them, “We’re going into this restaurant. Do you want to go in the regular way like all the other people, or do you want to go in the secret way?”

“The secret way, Poppa!”

So I’d take them in through a side door, but they thought it was the secret way.

The Bible tells us that God revealed secrets to Noah: “By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith” (Hebrews 11:7).

God spoke to Noah, and it activated his faith. There are a lot of ways that God speaks to us, but the primary way He speaks is through the word of God.

When you believe the Bible, you know things that other people don’t know. In fact, God reveals things to Christians that non-Christians don’t understand.

Because they believe the Bible, average Christians know more, in many ways, than some of the great intellects of the world. For instance, the Bible teaches that humanity is basically sinful. Now, that makes sense, and the world makes more sense when we accept the premise that we’re not basically good.

The Bible also teaches that God is good. It teaches that one day judgment will come to the world and that it’s going to get worse before it gets better. The Bible teaches that one day Christ will return and will right every wrong.

And the Bible says, “The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant” (Psalm 25:14)

Has He spoken to you lately?

Folks I talk to Christ everyday 

Sloan Bashinsky

What do Christ and God say back to you? I’m headed toward 81. Since 1987, God, Christ and angels known in he Bible have turned me upside down, inside out , and every which a way but loose. They stood me before many mirrors, and still are at it. I fret ongoing that I might be or am out of sync with God. I need constant reminders, instruction, correction. I get rebuked. That scares me something terrible. Imagine that happening to Joe Biden and Donald Trump. To every politician. To every minister. To every businessman/woman. Every law enforcement person and soldier. Every doctor and psychiatrist. Etc.(Jeff "liked" my comment.)

 

Jeff

He is my Armor and Savior.

 

Sloan Bashinsky

That is the view of every Christian I have known. My question to you is, do God and Christ talk to you? (Jeff "liked" my comment.)

Jeff

Sloan yes , I suggest you read your Bible Sir and pray and talk to Jesus. 

Sloan Bashinsky

Jeff, I was raised in the Bible, and had several refresher courses, including being taken back through it by God and Jesus, and the angels Michael and Melchizedek. That, and what  they were telling me and doing to me, changed my perspectives of me and everything else. I became interested in what other people were hearing and being shown and dealt with directly by God and Jesus and angels known in the Bible.

If you are interested in how it went for me, and the Bible and God and my Christian upbringing and thereafter, some of is told in The Golden Flake Clown's Tale. Golden Flake was my father's company. It's a free read at an internet library. 

https://archive.org/details/goldenflakeclownstale/page/11/mode/2up

 

Jeff 

Sloan praying for you my friend.

Sloan Bashinsky

Thanks.

    Jeff did not "like" the summary of my Bible experiences and the link I provided to The Golden Flake Clown's Tale. I believe he is praying for me, and I hope it helps me.

    It's the next morning. After sleeping and a couple of dreams, I commented to Jeff.

 Sloan Bashinsky

I dreamed last night of a very large group of people using the internet. They had their own system, which was working for them. One of them, a man, was trying to help me learn to speak in their language and ways. There was mention of how to do a reset. I woke up, thought about the dream, thought it could be about your and my discussion. 

 

I had dreamed yesterday afternoon of an old friend, who is deeply devoted to her very old denominational church in Birmingham. She had some chicken eggs, and asked me if I wanted them? My last human interaction with her, she kept telling me how unhappy she was with her new minister, he was astray, and I kept telling her to use her voice and speak out in the church. I told her there was a demonic entity involved, and it was attacking me for telling her what I thought she needed to do. She did not like what I was telling her and we have not spoken since.

It's very lonely living surrounded by people, who do not, or do not seem to be getting regular input from God about themselves, their affairs, and how they are dealing with themselves and what is going on around them. It's like being from another planet. Over the years, I have known a few people who were getting input from something a lot bigger and smarter than themselves. Something they feared crossing, going against. 

Somewhere in the Old Testament is said, "Fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom. In the Old Testament, Wisdom is assigned the female gender. The Old Testament is full of wisdom, and so is the New Testament. Jesus devoted his life in the Gospels to trying to get people to go about things differently. His teachings were perfect, and some of them were very hard to accept and live. I have known people who read the Bible every day to find guidance for them that day. I have had Christians tell me God quit speaking directly to people after the Bible was written. 

I have had Christians and non-Christians tell me I am delusional, hearing voices, seeing things, etc. By their measure, Jesus and his disciples and the Christian saints were delusional, hearing voices, seeing things, etc. I sometimes have told people, believers and non-believers, if they lived my skin a while, they might wish there was no God. 

I had a very good friend, who, long before we met, had been a building contractor, then he had a heart attack, and then he became a Methodist minister. He was absolutely convinced the Devil would get anyone who didn't attend church. I asked him how many churches Jesus built in the Gospels? I told him I didn't know when I was ever not in church. Yet, he remained convinced the Devil would get anyone who did not attend church. I had attended his church until he and his righthand man and  my Sunday School teacher, told me they could not allow me to upset the congregation. Finally, I asked him where the Devil would hide, that no one would think to look? He said he didn't know. I said, a church.

I then was shown he was at risk to another heart attack, if he continued pastoring that church. I was not able to reach him, so I wrote his wife a letter, explained it to her. I did not know her, but had learned of their home address. He then came to me in a dream and asked if he could stay in the church system, but not as a pastor. I said, yes. He took a job working for his denomination, where he traveled to different churches as an emissary and consultant. That was 2005. I left that area and have not had further dealings with him, but now I feel I should call a friend in that area, who introduced me to that minister, who was always bugging my friend to attend church, and I kept telling the minister my friend was dealing with God in his own way. My friend definitely is a believer, but not so much about church.

 

By 2005, it was clear to me that attending church services was not what I needed to be doing. My life and my work were elsewhere, in the mire and the muck of life. Yet, God is mysterious, full of surprises. For all I know, I might be told to start attending church services and Sunday school classes again. Or perhaps I'm to stick with the internet, where I have spent a great deal of time since early 2001. The internet reaches everywhere. I even don't have to walk or get into my car to get there. 

    I can't imagine it's possible for anyone not having direct experiences with God and angels known in the Bible to fathom someone who is having such direct experiences.

sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com