Loz wrote:
Isn't it so difficult to accept that the person that penned the above reply to Tec also wrote the post below just a few months earlier.
Chariklo wrote:
CHARIKLO SAID
I originally started to post this over on JWN in the current thread mocking this very subject, but was stopped in time by my own "instinct" or in this case an external reminder, not a physical voice but a thought so strong it could have been...this (JWN) is not the place. Pearls before swine flashed into my mind, and NO. I am not likening JWN posters to swine. It's merely an analogy.
As posters here know, I've been pondering for some time on this question of hearing the voice of God.
Unsurprisingly, perhaps, most people over on JWN decry any thought of this being other than an unwell condition, or else vanity or delusion. I've come to realise it's anything but. As soon as I started to study Shelby's posts I realised...recognised!...that some of this was straight from our Lord, through Shelby, yes, but the source was clear to me. I've seen nothing to change my mind.
It is a well-accepted and established tradition in many branches of Christianity that one can listen in prayer and also receive an answer in prayer. Such an answer may come in many forms, anything from an apparent absence of response to getting a strong feeling, even just a sense of disquiet on a matter, or a flood of peace, and sometimes a clear vision or a direct voice. All those things are well-attested.
This morning, first thing, while reflecting (with excited interest) on another subject, I suddenly realised that I've been hearing the voice of The Lord for years, for most of my life. It's the same thing. In my tradition, we don't talk of hearing a voice. We might say "it came to me in prayer" or "it became clear to me" or "I felt strongly impelled" ...you'll have seen me say that...or, just occasionally, "God told me" or "it was as if I heard a voice".
It is all the same thing. Maybe I will just put a brief note to that effect over there as well. In due course.
Loz x
So? Your point?
That post was made probably late last October, when I was still recovering from the Jehovah's Witnesses, having walked away from them only recently back then, when I had left the secularist forum where the taunts had been from those hurling ridicule at believers in God, and had very recently found and joined this forum. My rose-coloured spectacles were firmly in place and I took this forum at face value, its face being the one presented to newcomers, of a group of people who appeared, like me, to have been scarred by Jehovah's Witnesses, and were following Jesus. In those initial weeks, I tried very hard to fit in and accommodate myself even to the apparently bizarre ideas that continued to show themselves.
Now, Loz, are you seeking applause for so carefully and painstakingly trawling through old threads to find something with which you thought you would "catch me out"? Did you think you could expose me as someone who says different things at different times? Looks that way to me!
My goodness, you've just told us an awful lot about yourself! Is it the latest big game planned out in Shelby's secret rooms to which those of us sat outside on the naughty step are not invited?!
Thank goodness that those of us who are honest and sincere do allow ourselves to learn from observation and experience, and as we learn, honestly alter and express our views accordingly. Thank goodness!
Now, Loz, did you have any further point to make concerning my nine-or-ten-month-old post? Would you care to enlighten us all?
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