Posted by Joel Monka on December 17, 19102 at 18:16:33:
In Reply to: Re: Neale Donald Walsch posted by Robin Edgar on December 17, 19102 at 17:21:19:
: : Can anyone - including the writers of the various scriptures - really speak for God?
: I guess that depends on what you mean by "speak for God" but as someone who has had a kind of profound revelatory religious experience that is very comparable to those claimed by various Biblical prophets I can say that human beings can and do receive specific messages from God and can convey those specific messages to their fellow human beings. It is precisely because I have undergone such a profound revelatory experience of God and am claiming a capital 'R' "Revelation" of God that I urge caution in using this word. I have actually narrowed what I am claiming as "revelation" to only that which I am fully convinced is an actual "revelation" of God that comes very directly as a result of my revelatory experience. Everything else that I claim is simply my own personal opinion that, while it is of course informed in part by that revelatory experience, I none-the-less do not claim as a capital 'R' "Revelation" of God.
I feel real comradeship with you here, Robin. I,too have had a profound transcendental experience. I don't claim to speak for God, because I did not perceive it that way; not even a "this I am"... but it was an undeniable, absolute "what you thought is not." I have personal experience of life- or existence- not as we know it. I wish I could be more clear- and perhaps if I learn more about what I experienced, I'll be able to. But this experience makes it a neccessity not to make claims beyond my understanding.
Joel Monka