Does God ever speak to you from the Bible using the Bible's words out of context?
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Sometimes God does speak to an individual's situation using a verse that answers them (even though it is not in context).\nFor example, if a person is praying about buying a store and suddenly feels compelled to open the Bible to Proverbs 31:16 "She considers a field and buys it; out of her earnings she plants a vineyard."\nThen it is just possible that God is saying for them to go ahead and make the purchase.\nMaybe you're contemplating getting a nose ring and you feel compelled to look up Genesis 24:47 - That could be God saying "Go ahead".\nSuppose you were wanting to make a bussiness deal and you read Proverbs 7:26 "For she has brought many down to death;\nher victims are countless."\nThat's probably God saying "No, you fool, don't do it!" \n\nThe reason this is so controversial is that all too often, this type of "leading" is simply mis-leading, not God leading. The way to test it though, is just like Jesus did when Saten tempted Him by quoting (out of context) Scripture in the desert - Ask yourself the question, "Does this answer glorify God? Will this answer lead me to do anything that God has said not to do? Will this answer cause me to sin against my fellow-man? Is this a wise and loving solution?"
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These verses aren't saying the same things at all, and you aren't understanding them because you are looking at them out of context.  These are all from the NRS.\n\nGen 3:  14 The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you among all animals and among all wild creatures; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will strike your head, and you will strike his heel."\n\n16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."\nhttp://bible1.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?word=Genesis+2&section=0&version=nrs&new=1&oq=&NavBook=ge&NavGo=2&NavNextChapter=%3E%3E&NavCurrentChapter=2\n\nHere in Genesis 3:16, YHVH is telling Eve that her punishment for eating of the Tree of Knowledge is to have pain during childbirth, and yet to still desire sexual relations with her husband in spite of it; that her husband will rule over her on account of her desire for sexual relations with him.\n\nGen 4: 3 In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, 4 and Abel for his part brought of the firstlings of his flock, their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, 5 but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.\n\n6 The Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why has your countenance fallen? 7 If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it." \nhttp://bible1.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?passage=ge+4&version=nrs&language=en&showtools=0\n\nHere, in Gen 4:7, YHVH is telling Cain that if he does good things he will be happy; that Cain should desire to do good things because good things desire Cain to make good things manifest.  But evil things also desire Cain to make evil things manifest, and so Cain must learn to control himself - to gain mastery over himself - in order to differentiate between good and evil, and then presumably choose good over evil because man's natural state is godlike and therefore good.
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You answered your own question.  God would never contradict Himself, therefore, the book could not have come from Him.\n\nIt is a good rule to compare things said to be of God with the Bible.  If they don't agree 100% with the Bible, then they are not from God.
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When God speaks to you, you will know. and just remember that what ever you think you "hear" in your mind will always be justified by the Bible. If what you "hear" and what the Bible says is different. Then Watch out!!!\nYou will always feel peace if it is God.\nRead and Pray!
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In one answer you say you "Take the Bible literally".\nThen you answer lots of questions with the nice phrase "You are an idiot".\nDoes the Bible tell you to do that?
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Ah ...the soft-shoe routine you can get from people who believe in the "inerrant" Bible - when a text clearly states something so awful that it must be re-re-reinterpreted.\n\nSo .. a word from our sponsor:\nIsiah 45:7 "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and CREATE EVIL: I the LORD do all these things."\n\nAnd now let's hear the various (laughable) renditions of what "evil" means "in this context," or "the actual Hebrew means something totally different." - obviously it couldn't just mean "evil," .... could it? \n\nThere is no one answer to your question. Current theology, in a vain attempt at sidestepping the mystical trend that produced the citation above, holds that God did NOT do what He says He did, or that it's a "mystery to be revealed in the end to us all."
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nope\n"put a Bible out into the wind and rain it decenigrats, but to us the wind and rain are our Bible."\n-?
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Oh, the cry of the Christian. "YOU'RE TAKING IT OUT OF CONTEXT!" I love it when they say that, because Gen. 6:6 clearly says that God repented of having created mankind.  If you "repent" of something, it is because you regret having done it--otherwise, you would not feel the need to repent. In other words, God changed his mind. Poor, sad Christians, who are stuck with explaining why God says, in some places that he never changes, repents, or lies; while in other places, he repents of having done something, or changes his mind about doing something (as in Jonah 3:10). \n\nYou can't have it both ways. Either God NEVER changes at all, for any reason, or he sometimes does. How can an all-knowing God change his mind?? He already knows what's going to happen in the future--if he knew he were going to change his mind about a decision, he would never bother to make the decision in the first place!
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Yes! I believe the Bible to be the inspired Word of God!\n\n2 Timothy 3:16 says: All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness.\n\nImperfect humans were utilized as vessels and/or instruments to transcribe the Word of God in print. They were chosen by God.\n\nIt's no different than if a secretary transcribes the words of a  doctor or lawyer for others to read in print.\n\nIf the Lord can create galaxies, the earth, life....surely...he can perfectly guide imperfect man to put words upon a page. \n\nBlessings, Kiki
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No he does not, that is why when one of his disciples was walking along the road and someone was reading Scripture and the Lord told him to hurry to catch up with the guy and the Apostle asked the guy what he was reading and the guy told him but, asked the explanation of it the Apostle then explained it. This is to show us that we need his church to interpret it correctly. I mean look at all the varying interpretations here on this site
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No.  All scripture needs to be taken in context.
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It most certainly can! All that was said in the Bible can still be applied today. Some things did change from the Old to the New Testament, but both are still very much valid. The Bible is our guide to life! Read it, study it, meditate on it! I guarantee you will grow from it! God bless!
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ohhh yea!   snarky...\n\nI believe it sounded something like...\n\n"I really appreciate your opinion, BUT... clearly you haven't read the bible."
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How about taking that quotation a bit further- includsing the verses that come afterwards...\n\n"18. I will set up a prophet for them from among their brothers like you, and I will put My words into his mouth, and he will speak to them all that I command him.\n19. And it will be, that whoever does not hearken to My words that he speaks in My name, I will exact [it] of him.\n20. But the prophet who intentionally speaks a word in My name, which I did not command him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.\n21. Now if you say to yourself, "How will we know the word that the Lord did not speak?"\n22. If the prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, and the thing does not occur and does not come about, that is the thing the Lord did not speak. The prophet has spoken it wantonly; you shall not be afraid of him."\n\nand let us not forget from Deuteronomy, Chapter 13\n\n"1. Everything I command you that you shall be careful to do it. You shall neither add to it, nor subtract from it.\n2. If there will arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of a dream, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,\n3. and the sign or the wonder of which he spoke to you happens, [and he] says, "Let us go after other gods which you have not known, and let us worship them,"\n4. you shall not heed the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of a dream; for the Lord, your God, is testing you, to know whether you really love the Lord, your God, with all your heart and with all your soul."\n\nYep- no prohpet can change the law of God- it is eternal and even somebody doing miraclkes is just a test- and one you pass by ignoring them!
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Since the bible was inspired by God, and it says so in many places including the ones mentioned above, then it must be God's word.  He would not inspire the bible writers to write someone elses words.
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God speaks for Himself through His Word (the Bible) and through His Messengers (preachers).  i am not a preacher, and I won't pretend to know the Bible inside and out, but I know this much:  God Loves You.  He loves you so much, he gave up His Son on your behalf.  He loves you now, and he has always loved you. He is waiting to know whether you love him...
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It is very difficult to mistranslate a text to take it out of context. For one thing, God repeats Himself often in the text so that we can cross-reference book with book such as the book of Samuel with the book of Chronicles, the book of Matthew against Mark, Luke and John. You have to WANT to this to make it work. Some have. There are translations based on the Latin Vulgate that I ignore, and stick to those that use the Textus Receptus. But the context of the Bible is clear...\n\nGod sent His Son into the world to die and prove His power over death by rising. Through His blood we have redemption from our sins so that we may freely come into the presence of the Almighty.