How Do We Respond to People Who Think They Hear from God?
It has become very common place among, so called evangelicals, to diminish the sufficiency (and by so doing) the inerrancy of scripture by claiming they receive private guidance in the form of hearing God's voice through impression, circumstances, dreams, and a variety of experiences. Many of these folk are sincere, and truly believe they are following God. Some will even claim that to deny or disregard these experiences is to disobey God's Word and many clergy and Bible teachers support them. The previous seven post have addressed the fallacy and doctrinal errors of the Experiencing God Movement. Seeking guidance through experience, which we claim is the revealed Word of God to us, is contrary to the way God directs. After Samuel anointed Saul as King of Israel he advised him on how to know God's direction for himself the and the kingdom. [6] Then the Spirit of the LORD will rush upon you, and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man. [7] Now when these