when someone says: GOD told me to tell the world

[ecuworrier]

... is not uncontroversial... we have messianic statements coming from all sorts of quarters whether it's David Eicke David Shaler hey David seems a good name for it....  do i sound a bit sceptical or a bit weary  well i guess it's cos christians too are expected to sit up when someone comes along and says GOD told me to tell the world...

now some may have read David Eicke's book (i have not) or well i have heard David Shaler being interviewed by non other than Jon Ronson on the matter on that quirky late night programme on radio 4 sometimes of his....  so i have a picture of some sense of crisis point for David Shaler at least where he has some form of mystical experience.... as i say christians are not immune and my attention was drawn to someone called Mary Kathrine Baxter who by now is yet another famous person that somehow escapes me and her 30 day encounter with hell and 'GOD told me to tell the world that hell is real'  i am taking this as a seperate line there are various youtube clips on the matter she has written a book .... i have stared at the volume of google references and that apart from a single visit to a single site is the sum total of all my enquiry....  i do state though that i have no interest in interfering in anything GOD wants to get out of this ....   or manages to achieve however it does make me wonder a little ... perhaps at why Jesus didn't write anything down while in today's media frenzy of self-publish and thirst for juicy gossip as well as authenticity everyone seems to have a story to tell.....

the media makes things easy to bring messages ...but who are we to believe ? and does it matter what folks believe?  is belief a matter of fact or faith ... cos on the fact front we is still in the same position ie we gotta make up our own minds or follow someone we trust... how does this relate to Relationship with the Lord that Saves Jesus....

oh i have heard Vassula talk 'the truth about GOD' ....  i did like her she did have some humility and engaged with the previous pope on interdenominational stuff


GOD BLESS!

Peace and Love,

[AndyHB]

I think that we have to take the Biblical instruction to 'test the spirits' to heart in these kinds of situations.  I remember hearing David Icke when he first started to preach his ideas back in the early 1990s; I very quickly cottoned on to the fact that his was a mish-mash of old and new ideas, none of them particularly clever or realistic.  Here Martin and his 'message of love' actually comes into its own, because if the message that someone claims to have been given by God doesn't include this in some form or other - and many of these self-styled messiahs' messages don't - it is definitely NOT a message from the God who wants to reconcile humanity with himself.  That is not to say that it isn't a message from some god - many of the gods of this world are intent on destroying  - so in that sense I suppose we have to accept that they may be speaking on behalf of one or more such gods.

[AndyHB]

We also need to remember that, as Christians, we have an instruction throughout the Gospels and summed up in the final chapter of Matthew, to tell others of God's redemptive love for humanity.