Comments on: Beware of False Prophets http://zamagazine.org/topic/beware-of-false-prophets/ Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:56:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Buzz Schellhammer http://zamagazine.org/topic/beware-of-false-prophets/comment-page-1/#comment-998 Buzz Schellhammer Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:22:09 +0000 http://zamagazine.org/?p=494#comment-998 Thanks for the reply Martin! Experience does nothing against God's word. Tums? Let's hope that is strong enough. Agreed Brendan...I believe experience is very valuable to our spiritual growth and health, but if you have an experience that downright contradicts the Bible, then it's time to re-evaluate the experience and find an explanation. Thanks for the reply Martin! Experience does nothing against God’s word.
Tums? Let’s hope that is strong enough.

Agreed Brendan…I believe experience is very valuable to our spiritual growth and health, but if you have an experience that downright contradicts the Bible, then it’s time to re-evaluate the experience and find an explanation.

]]> By: Brendan Berkley http://zamagazine.org/topic/beware-of-false-prophets/comment-page-1/#comment-993 Brendan Berkley Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:57:06 +0000 http://zamagazine.org/?p=494#comment-993 martin - I mostly agree. I think a lot of times, people get so caught up wanting to feel God that they'll accept anything emotionally powerful as being from God. But I think our head needs to rule alongside our heart sometimes. Isn't there a verse that goes something like "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick, who can fathom it?" However, I would say that we don't get rid of the experience outright; rather, we need to make sure that experience lines up with the Word. martin - I mostly agree. I think a lot of times, people get so caught up wanting to feel God that they’ll accept anything emotionally powerful as being from God. But I think our head needs to rule alongside our heart sometimes. Isn’t there a verse that goes something like “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick, who can fathom it?”

However, I would say that we don’t get rid of the experience outright; rather, we need to make sure that experience lines up with the Word.

]]> By: martin pratt http://zamagazine.org/topic/beware-of-false-prophets/comment-page-1/#comment-992 martin pratt Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:19:16 +0000 http://zamagazine.org/?p=494#comment-992 Absolutely yes. Run everything through and by the book of God. In every decision, don't tell me what a book said, show me Bible not babble. We live in a time where experience counts more than God's revealed truth. For example, I've had friends who tell me how a mother or relative who had died vistited them later on. My Bible teaches that it is appointed unto men once to die, ONCE to die and after that judgement. Jesus gave a parable or story of a man in hell wanting to come back and warn his people but could not. What do we do when experience contradicts the Word of God? I say get rid of the experience or take a Tums. Excellent entry Absolutely yes.
Run everything through and by the book of God.
In every decision, don’t tell me what a book said, show me Bible not babble.

We live in a time where experience counts more than God’s revealed truth. For example, I’ve had friends who tell me how a mother or relative who had died vistited them later on.

My Bible teaches that it is appointed unto men once to die, ONCE to die and after that judgement. Jesus gave a parable or story of a man in hell wanting to come back and warn his people but could not.

What do we do when experience contradicts the Word of God? I say get rid of the experience or take a Tums.

Excellent entry

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