How Do Christians Know When God Is Speaking to Them?

[The Valkyrie]

Well, in recent history it seems "god" told almost every Republican candidate to run for president. He told a woman to kill her kids, and he's told various parents to pray and not get their kids medical treatment.

Over all, I would say don't listen to the voices in your head.

Unless it's Jeff, he's awesome!

[brewer]

god gives them a sign. The giant turd flushed, it's a sign. The toilet clogged, it's a sign. Anything can be a sign. I asked god, then I sneezed. I prayed and shit didn't happen, it's OK, must be a sign, god just said no. Guess I just have to live with the rhoids, god is teaching me.

The best signs, god shows up in food, oil spills, rust stains, a crumpled piece of paper. They start seeing jesus in tree scars when normal people see vaginas.

[Lek]

Of course I'm serious.  You're taking a supernatural God and applying human measurements to what he can do.  If he is confined to natural laws then he's not God.

Where did I say anything about natural laws or human measurements?

OK. After a rereading I get it. I'll say God can do things that are seemingly impossible to you.

[Whateverist]

Q: How Do Christians Know When God Is Speaking to Them?

A: He would be the one moving his lips.

[Lek]

Well, in recent history it seems "god" told almost every Republican candidate to run for president.  He told a woman to kill her kids, and he's told various parents to pray and not get their kids medical treatment.

Over all, I would say don't listen to the voices in your head.

Unless it's Jeff, he's awesome!

If the voices contradict Jesus' message in the bible, then ignore them.

1 John 4:1English Standard Version (ESV)

Test the Spirits
4 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

[Minimalist]

How Do Christians Know When God Is Speaking to Them?

If the voice tells them what they want to hear, it's fucking jesus.

[Angrboda]

Well, in recent history it seems "god" told almost every Republican candidate to run for president.  He told a woman to kill her kids, and he's told various parents to pray and not get their kids medical treatment.

Over all, I would say don't listen to the voices in your head.

Unless it's Jeff, he's awesome!

If the voices in scripture contradict Jesus' message in the bible, then ignore them.

1 John 4:1English Standard Version (ESV)

Test the Spirits
4 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

And how do you know whether the test comes up negative. What does a negative result look like. It seems to me that you attribute things to the 'voice' of God regardless of whether they are positive or negative. What clear sign would you have that God is not talking to you?

[Lek]

If the voices in scripture contradict Jesus' message in the bible, then ignore them.

1 John 4:1English Standard Version (ESV)

Test the Spirits
4 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

And how do you know whether the test comes up negative.  What does a negative result look like.  It seems to me that you attribute things to the 'voice' of God regardless of whether they are positive or negative.  What clear sign would you have that God is not talking to you?

If a voice told me to cheat on my wife, I would ignore it because it violates Jesus' teachings.

[Angrboda]

And how do you know whether the test comes up negative.  What does a negative result look like.  It seems to me that you attribute things to the 'voice' of God regardless of whether they are positive or negative.  What clear sign would you have that God is not talking to you?

If a voice told me to cheat on my wife, I would ignore it because it violates Jesus' teachings.

And if it didn't violate the teachings of the bible, then how do you identify a negative result?

[Minimalist]

And how do you know whether the test comes up negative.  What does a negative result look like.  It seems to me that you attribute things to the 'voice' of God regardless of whether they are positive or negative.  What clear sign would you have that God is not talking to you?

If a voice told me to cheat on my wife, I would ignore it because it violates Jesus' teachings.

Really?  You sure about that?

http://biblehub.com/luke/14-26.htm

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.