Billy Graham says Christians Don't Actually Hear the Voice of God

by leavingwt 101 Replies latest jw friends

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  leavingwt

  In direct contradiction to the testimony of some of our friends and family, Billy Graham weighs in. . .

  Billy Graham says Christians Don't Actually Hear the Voice of God

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  The question should have put Billy in a dilemma. Usually, people who hear voices in their head are considered unstable. However, if the person is a Christian and the voice is that of God, this is considered normal by other Christians.

  Billy opts to take the easy way out and waffles. He says, “??When Christians say God has been talking to them about something, it simply means they have a strong inner conviction or feeling that God has made His will known to them.” Without knowing if the person actually thinks they hear the voice of God, Billy backpedals and says it is just a feeling the person experiences. In other words, even Christians don’t actually hear the voice of God. According to Billy, God is subtler in His communications.

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  http://www.examiner.com/atheism-in-sioux-falls/billy-graham-says-christians-don-t-actually-hear-the-voice-of-god
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  OnTheWayOut

  But how can those Christians feel special like Moses or Joseph Smith if it isn't so?
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  littlebird

  I agree with Billy. I've never heard a "voice". Guess Im not special.
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  PSacramento

  Well, one can argue that a person never feel "true love" or that "love" doesn't really exist.

  Of course we all know that Billy has a direct line to God so, if ANYONE knows, its him, LOL !
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  keyser soze

  You mean the voices I'm hearing is something else?
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  undercover

  Without knowing if the person actually thinks they hear the voice of God, Billy backpedals and says it is just a feeling the person experiences. In other words, even Christians don’t actually hear the voice of God. According to Billy, God is subtler in His communications.

  So BG's theory agrees with the WTS' stance on how the annointed know they're annointed... "They just know..."
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  Chalam

  Agreed, to a point, most Christians haven't heard the audible voice of God i.e. via their ears.

  However, I have heard His voice loud and clear on occasion internally in my mind, in the same way I can heard my own voice or I can see something in my mind's eye.

  However, most often it is the confirmation of the Holy Spirit within my spirit by which hearing comes.

  I am currently reading this book

  How to Hear from God Study Guide: Learn to Know His Voice and Make Right Decisions (Meyer, Joyce)

  Joyce teaches the multifarious ways in which God speaks to us all.

  Blessings,

  Stephen
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  Ding

  It's hard to hear the voice of God when you have WT lingo playing over and over in your head...
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  Inkie

  Sometimes you all really amaze with your ignorance. No offense is intended, please. You’d think after being in the organization all the years you havethat at the very least, whether you agree with it or not, that you would at least know what the Bible does say; again, even if you don’t agree with it. Were you all asleep during all the meetings that you attended all those years? Or in your personal Bible studies? I mean, you must have gleaned something, yes? Something? Be that as it may. . . .

  The Gospel of John, chapter 10, says the following:

  The doorkeeper [Christ] opens to this one, and the sheep listen to his voice [ so . . . he says he has a voice, contrary to what Billy says ], and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 When he has got all his own out, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. [ Can anyone say it better than Christ himself?] 5 A stranger they will by no means follow but will flee from him,because they do not know the voice of strangers.”

  So then, according to Billy (and many of you here on this Board), Christ has no actual voice that someone can hear, then in that case, it would follow that “strangers” also have no “voice” either. Taking it to its logical conclusion. But that doesn’t make sense because the voices of strangers like the Watchtower Society, Catholic Church, Mormon Church, and all the other so-called Christian churches all have hearable voices with which we have been misled. We “hear” those voices so thus it would follow that we can hear Christ’s voice. Anyway . . .

  John continues:

  16 “And I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; those also I must bring, and they will listen to my voice[ Can it get plainer than that? ], and they will become one flock, one shepherd.

  26 But YOU do not believe, because YOU are none of my sheep. 27 My 28 And I give them everlasting life, and they will by no means ever be destroyed, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

  --Inkie
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  BizzyBee

  Interesting that Graham presumes to speak for all Christians. Quite a few would beg to differ with him.