Communicating with Him

[Zen Badger]

Once you learn to ask and seek out God, (Through the bible) you will be given a measure of the Holy Spirit to indwell you, and depending on how you use this gift of the Spirit, will determine God's direct involvement in your life and how you are able to perceive this involvement. So in a sense God still does reach out to His people. Most of us however to not understand what is being communicated or how to reach back.

So when serial killers etc claim that god told them to do it, should we take them seriously?

That is why we must first have a solid understanding of what the bible says. So when we hear "voices" we can decern who is doing the talking. For God will never tell someone to do something outside of what has been contextually recorded in the expressed will of God. So if someone says God told me to murder this person or this group of people we can go back to the work of the Holy Spirit as outlined in the bible and see the holy Spirit forbids murder. So if the man in question is hearing voices we can say, the voices were not from the God of the Bible.

Since there are many passages in the bible where god commands his followers to kill in his name you might want to reconsider that statement.