RE: Ask a Traditional Catholic
July 3, 2015 at 6:33 pm
(This post was last modified: July 3, 2015 at 6:34 pm by Metis.)
(July 3, 2015 at 6:21 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(July 3, 2015 at 3:46 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: Out in the open? No. I'll start by asking if you've ever had a personal revelation.
If you mean, "Have I ever heard from God in prayer?", sure.
Not often - but several times in my life, yes.
Additionally, I have received several powerful answers to prayer in the form of "coincidences" (to use a phrase that you might be comfortable with) or workings out of things for which I have doubt that God was responsible.
David Koresh also thought it was his divine mission direct from the heavens to take over America and remake the world in accordance with his will.
Joseph Smith (whom you have already mocked in this thread) also claimed to have a direct revelation from two of the three persons of what you would call the trinity.
Ellen G White also claimed to have direct revelations from God directing her actions.
Mary Baker recived her formula for Christian Science from divine inspiration.
Muhammad allegedly had the Quran dictated to him by an agent of God.
Now, not to be pendantic Randy but all of the above would have described you as a pagan, an atheist or an abomination before the Lord. Why should we believe that you have heard God, where they all claim they had and had a lot of people, especially the last of them, take their claims far more seriously?
What's to stop me rolling around on the floor right now, then hopping back up on my feet and claiming I'd received a vision from the one true Goddess Hera because she answered my request to help guide my hand in finding my keys?
Coincidence in that I just happened to find my keys, or was this the work of Hera? Perhaps I was deceived and I really received a diabolic revelation from her ancient foe Io, or perhaps even Europa?
