Warning: God Told Me ______?

The Doc wrote:

“We need to have an open mind to see how current events fit the Bible.”

No doubt. So why are there as many prophecy hawks making textbook examples of common mistakes as there are? Answer – arrogance. “God told me so.” “God made me to understand.” “God put on my heart…” Nonsense. You told yourself. (The generic ‘you’, that is, which includes all of us.) Or worse, someone using our own voices inside our minds told it to us. If there’s one thing I have learned very thoroughly over the past few years, it’s that most of the Bible-believers who take the time to write blogs and prophecy articles, aren’t quite as humble as they think they are, and certainly not as humble as they ought to be. This whole ‘God told me so’ mentality stems from the very simple, and very primal, desire to be set-apart from the crowd; to be distinguished in a unique relationship with the Most High that is a better and truer relationship than most all others enjoy. But he who would be first, becomes last, and the culvert which runs along the afflicted path is littered with the bruised and battered bodies of would-be seekers after the Way who were way too hasty, too presumptuous, and too prideful. Some of us take the lesson to heart, or at least try to. But many others seem intent on NOT learning that particular lesson.

[Good morning, Doc. I caught your interview with Kerry Lutz on the ‘Financial Survival Network’ a few weeks ago. I especially enjoyed how you steered the conversation (rather abruptly, I might add) into the topic of the written Word. Lutz himself is hostile to the Word. He is a pseudo-spiritual/new-ageish type of non-type. He also employs some of the most subtle imagery for his programming which only an apt pupil in the esoteric arts should be using, so either he himself, or his program director (if he has one), is actively playing for the wrong team. It made for an interesting interview. I could feel his discomfort when you took him places he really didn’t want to go. Good form.]