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The basic difference we have is "revelation", an act of revealing or communicating divine truth. If someone tells me that my Mom wants me to come home I can only take their word for it, I don't know if it's the truth. Revelation is God speaking directly to me and I can know it to be the truth for me. No other source is like that, all other sources have to be taken at face value, you have to have "faith" that others are not lying to you by ommission or commission or through interpretation or misinterpretation.

You are willing to accept "truth" from others in a way that I am not. The still, small voice inside is the only source which I trust. I don't care what anyone else tells me, if it does not coincide with what my relationship with my Creator has told me, then I reject it.

It is the very fact that people accept revelation second or third or ten thousandth-hand that destroys its value because once you accept someone else's word about what God wants, where do you draw the line? I think that if it can be a lie, then it cannot be revelation.

What would you use as an example of corporate revelation?

<blockquote data-quote="Mare Tranquillity" data-source="post: 76504" data-attributes="member: 434">The basic difference we have is &quot;revelation&quot;, an act of revealing or communicating divine truth.&nbsp; If someone tells me that my Mom wants me to come home I can only take their word for it, I don&#039;t know if it&#039;s the truth.&nbsp; Revelation is God speaking directly to me and I can know it to be the truth for me.&nbsp; No other source is like that, all other sources have to be taken at face value, you have to have &quot;faith&quot; that others are not lying to you by ommission or commission or through interpretation or misinterpretation. You are willing to accept &quot;truth&quot; from others in a way that I am not.&nbsp; The still, small voice inside is the only source which I trust.&nbsp; I don&#039;t care what anyone else tells me, if it does not coincide with what my relationship with my Creator has told me, then I reject it.It is the very fact that people accept revelation second or third or ten thousandth-hand that destroys its value because once you accept someone else&#039;s word about what God wants, where do you draw the line?&nbsp; I think that if it can be a lie, then it cannot be revelation.What would you use as an example of corporate revelation?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mare Tranquillity, post: 76504, member: 434"] The basic difference we have is "revelation", [B][U]an act of revealing or communicating divine truth[/U][/B]. If someone tells me that my Mom wants me to come home I can only take their word for it, I don't know if it's the truth. Revelation is God speaking directly to me and I can know it to be the truth for me. No other source is like that, all other sources have to be taken at face value, you have to have "faith" that others are not lying to you by ommission or commission or through interpretation or misinterpretation. You are willing to accept "truth" from others in a way that I am not. The still, small voice inside is the only source which I trust. I don't care what anyone else tells me, if it does not coincide with what my relationship with my Creator has told me, then I reject it. It is the very fact that people accept revelation second or third or ten thousandth-hand that destroys its value because once you accept someone else's word about what God wants, where do you draw the line? I think that if it can be a lie, then it cannot be revelation. What would you use as an example of corporate revelation? [/QUOTE]

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