'Those who have lived after the close of the Canon and claim to have direct revelation from God, produce miracles, prophecy, etc., are to be avoided. God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the Scriptures and does not engage in tête-à-tête conversations with individuals.'

Pilgrim,

God has spoken to us by His Son, and certainly the Scriptures were given to make us wise unto salvation which is by Jesus Christ, and also that these Scriptures are only a fraction of all that Jesus spoke, but what we are given is to enable us to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Further to that we have been given the Holy Spirit our teacher, comforter, who guides us into all truth. Since 1976 when I was in a beginners Bible Study, I heard His Spirit speaking to my heart and teaching me. I fear you are teaching from a very dry well my friend.

The day that God stops speaking to us by the Holy Spirit will be a most frightening day, but to consciously resist the teacher, comforter and the One who is given to us to lead us into all truth, is to lean solely upon one's own intellect.

I remember how it was when I read the Bible like Appollos. Then the Lord baptised me in the Holy Spirit and for the first time I was able to really hear God.

It seems that my time here has drawn suddenly to a close. I must say when I was getting all the stuff to read, I realized that I was in an intellectual cave, it is time to go down to BIOLA University and pull out those old copies by a long forgotten Headmaster and read about the more excellent way.

Sela Vie,