The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Dreams.

E F Grant,

I certainly did not want to imply by my Calvin quote that you were interpreting Scripture with your dreams. I was aware that you had said, "I do not put them on par with Scripture".

My concern was what exactly is it that you believe you might discover by interpreting your own dreams? What is it that you might find in your dreams that you can't find wide awake, lucid, with a cup of coffee and in control of all of your facilities. I don't believe that the Spirit somehow deserts us when we're awake. This is especially true for us Reformed who know that the Scripture canon is closed.

This is also especially true when we know that the Scripture generally presents our dreams as self-emanating and valueless.

"It shall even be as when a hungry man dreams,
And look—he eats;
But he awakes, and his soul is still empty;
Or as when a thirsty man dreams,
And look—he drinks;
But he awakes, and indeed he is faint,
And his soul still craves" (Isaiah 29:8)

Our New-Age world is full of neophyte Sigmund Freuds, all of whom believe they are able to find your "inner child" or whatever, simply by interpreting your dreams - a dangerous occupation indeed.

Denny

Romans 3:22-24