I was discussing revelation as in "revelation from God". Grief can be a shared experience in some senses, but if you have never lost a child you cannot truly know what that loss feels like. Revelation from God is unique, an experience that happens inside you, no one else can feel it happening nor feel what you feel inside yourself. Others can have revelations and you can talk to them, but neither you nor they will ever be able to actually experience each other's revelation.
My comment about the Bible is that it is claimed to be "revealed" information, yet it cannot be because revelation is personal and not something that somebody tells you or writes in a book. Revelation is NEVER hearsay, if it is second hand, then it is not revelation.
No, revelation is not a "wholesale" experience. If it was there would be ONE
Christian church instead of more than 3000 competing churches all claiming to have God's Truth.
Somebody wrote some stuff in a book, you don't know who, you don't know when, you don't know why, there are how many different versions of the Bible now? In the Council of Nicea they voted on what was going to be accepted as God's Word in the official Scripture. Hello? Revelation is not voted upon, it is a personal message to you from God, a person to person phone call from God.
The danger of stepping in front of a fast-moving car is very perceptible to all, persecuting gay people, enslaving black people, subjugating women, consigning unpopular people to legal disenfranchisement based on one of the interpretations of one of the dozens of translations of an eclectic conglomeration of writings thousands of years old that they voted to call the "Word of God" is the antithesis of revelation. Sharing your good feelings with others is very different from passing laws to force others to obey your religious beliefs. There is a very thin line between proselytizing and coercion.
(This is in no sense to be considered a personal attack on you since I don't know you at all, this is a general statement about the misuse of "revelation" and the religious coercion of others.)
