Re: Very few people "experienced God" directly. -- ExUBF's Parlor

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Date Posted: 16:30:17 10/22/04 Fri
Author: Joe
Subject: Re: Very few people "experienced God" directly.
In reply to: Joe 's message, "Very few people "experienced God" directly." on 13:24:11 10/22/04 Fri

There was a point in there somewhere. Bear with me.

>>If, as it is written, God spoke to people in
>>biblical times - they had no need of ancient texts.
>
>Plus, they were illiterate. But, as I will write,
>there had to be a way for the few people who
>"experienced God" directly to pass on their witness of
>their experience, which leads to oral tradition, then
>written tradition.
>
>>They directly experienced God. Why can't we get the
>>message the same way?
>
>Very few people, even in the biblical record,
>experienced God directly. I'll go out on a limb and
>say that most of the people who followed Jesus and
>believed in him after his ascension did so based on
>the second-hand testimony of the few that witnessed
>his life and miracles.

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