I listen to testimonies sometimes from Christians. As a rule, the speaker mentions one or more of the following
- God or Jesus عليه السلام speaking to them
- Them hearing a voice say something to them
- God telling them something.
Usually people become alarmed when they hear
a voice and others become alarmed when someone relates that God told them such and such.
We are familiar with prophets, but we largely agree they are no longer here and most certainly that not all Christians whom God supposedly "speaks to" can be prophets.
Christians don't seem to have a problem with this.
What do they mean when they say they "heard a voice", "God told me" or "God speaks to me"?
One possibility could be, they don't mean
a literal voice — which is reasonable,
except that if someone says, for example,
"God told me to continue my father's job after his death," would he be saying publicly that, basically, he got a feeling at one time or another that God would want him to continue his father's job after his death
and that he
transformed that feeling in his mind to God literally speaking to him? How does he know so specifically what God wants if it isn't written clearly in the scripture?