Need for a fresh word from God... (Jesus Christ, gospel, beliefs)

[Captain Civic]

Originally Posted by dance-above

If there was a new word ,what would it be? What could you add? From a christian perspective,
nothing. We are just waiting for the conclusion. For me, it is enough.


PS I know he is still speaking. But not a new message.

I agree. Not a 'new' message, but a perhaps 'culturally relevant' message. Someone who can look at the Scriptures and explain it with more forethought and understanding to the average person living in the 21st Century. SO much meaning gets lost because of cultural differences.

[methylatedghosts]

From some works I've read and from things I've come to conclude myself, I doubt that any true, honest word directly from god would be taken as such. People have put far too much emphasis from the WORDS of god that were written so long ago, that I feel should be considered out-of-date, and were it any kind of food, would be crawling with fungus long ago evolved to have legs and moved on. Were there more emphasis on the experience of god, then maybe I could see direct words being taken as truthful, but then direct words would no longer be needed, as we have the experience instead, which is much a much more powerful communicator. Experience not words. That's the way I see it. I see people as being too deluded with their present idea of god that were god actually to directly speak/write to them, they would immediately dismiss it as devil works.

I don't see any fresh direct words having too much effect on the general population.

God cannot tell you it's truth, until you stop telling it yours!

[Rolling_Stone]

Originally Posted by angellous_evangellous

My thread Christian: The Need for a Fresh Word from God has caught some attention from followers of other religions.

I put in in same-faith debates because insights from followers of other religions are de facto speaking from a point of view that would exclude specific Christian problems which could hinder reception of God's voice, like dogmatic adherence to Church and Scripture, for example.

Do we need a fresh word from God?

(edit - feel free to quote statements from the other thread if you'd like to discuss them here)

The URANTIA Book professes to be such a revelation, but I don't know. Why would a "revelation" contain so much fertilizer unless it was a deliberate ploy to offer information in a way that it's impossible to make a fetish of the source? I mean, there's a lot of good stuff in it, but there's also a lot of superfluous and bad information. It's not Christian, yet, it recognizes the divinity of Christ; Jesus was the incarnation of a "Creator Son" on Earth (the last third of the book is about his life and teachings), but not the Original Son and the atonement doctrine is disavowed.

Whether or not we need a fresh word, I think we need a new language to accomodate the modern age.

God cannot tell you it's truth, until you stop telling it yours!

Frubals for that.