Our Image Of God

[Amisk]

"When we move away from the scriptural revelation of God, our image of God shrinks." Major Greg Simmonds

[holo]

"Major Greg Simmonds is wrong" holo

When we move away from relying on scripture/other people's descriptions of the Lord and start experiencing him ourselves, our image of God broadens.

[DanielRB]

Peace, Holo :wave:

"Major Greg Simmonds is wrong" holo

When we move away from relying on scripture/other people's descriptions of the Lord and start experiencing him ourselves, our image of God broadens.

I don't see reliance on Scripture as precluding experiencing the presence of God in our own lives. On the contrary, we may have a lot of personal "experiences" that may or may not be from God, and may or may not broaden our perspective on him. Our own personal subjective convictions may be narrow, broad, confused or orderly. Reliance on personal experience will never give consistent results from person to person.

From your other posts, holo, it appears as though you do not believe Scripture is fully God-breathed. Is my assumption correct?

If my personal experience has led me to believe that Scripture is fully God-breathed, am I wrong?

In Christ,

Daniel

[holo]

I figured I'd disagree as much as possible, just to make the thread interesting :D

As for the scriptures being "God-breahted", yes. Though I have no real grounds to say that for example the Lutheran verision of the scirptures are strictly from God and that the Catholic canon has added some books that are NOT "God-breathed", or vice versa (I believe there are yet one or two other different canons in use as well). It's strictly a matter of faith for me.

Shortly put, I belive the bible is sort of like a finger pointing to Christ, but sometimes we get hung up on studying the finger instead of getting to know the Christ :)
That being said, the bible does offer extremely "broad" experiences of God - burning bushes, prophets, talking animals, dreams, angelic messengers, etc.