The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Does God speak to His people today?

Clearly, you are contradicting yourself above. On the one hand, you affirm that Scripture is the ultimate authority. But on the other hand, you insist that your experience (hearing voices) is the ultimate authority. The fact is that the Holy Spirit is the Author of Scripture and doesn't contradict, add to nor take away from that which He has had written by the Prophets and Apostles, aka: the canon of God's inspired, infallible and inerrant Word. To state that "the Spirit would have told me by now" is to deny the ultimate, full and final authority of that Word. The hearing of voices was deemed inferior and superseded by the written Word as Peter declared:

2 Peter 1:16-21 (ASV) "For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there was borne such a voice to him by the Majestic Glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased: and this voice we [ourselves] heard borne out of heaven, when we were with him in the holy mount. And we have the word of prophecy [made] more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts: knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation. For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit."

The listening to "voices" more often than not relieves an individual from personal responsibility as they can always say that "God told me . . ." It also denigrates that faith which is given whereby one walks as opposed to sight (hearing). If one desires to know the will of God, all that is necessary is to know the written Word of God through which the Spirit works.

See here: Discovering God's Will, by Dr. Sinclair Ferguson.

In His grace,