The Thirsty Theologian blog has an excerpt from “In Christ Alone: Living the Gospel Centered Life” by Sinclair Ferguson on the tendency of Christians to claim direct revelation from God. According to Dr. Ferguson, there are three reasons why Christians say “God told me”…
1) It is more exciting than Bible study.
2) It seems more convincing than saying “The Bible says…”
3) Direct revelation makes it unnecessary to do the hard work of Bible study.
Read the whole thing here http://www.thirstytheologian.com/2008/08/08/god_told_me.php
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