So I am surely justified in doubting the words of any man claiming to
speak for God, the one being in all the Universe that is surely capable of speaking for Itself — if it exists at all, or cares to speak.
What you claim is «obeying god» is actually obeying men who claim to
speak for god, but in this instance, «god» speaks far louder than the men.
Christ may
speak for God, but he wasn't speaking... it was you.
Do you presume to
speak for God.
Deborah — prophet, judge, national leader (Judges 4 - 5)[McKnight says, «if we ask what did women do, and we ask this question of Deborah, we learn that women could
speak for God as a prophet, render decisions n a law court as a judge, exercise leadership over the entire spiritual - social Israel, and be a military commander who brought Israel to victory.»
What if no one else can honestly
speak for God?
No one can
speak for God but when they do kind unselfish acts for others they kinda do some whispering for Him.
This being said, you have no authority to act or
speak for God.
People who claim to
speak for god do.
Does anyone still think
they speak for God?
Claiming to
speak for God (as fishon does) makes one an ass.
Because we dare not
speak for God presumptively (as you've seen some TV preachers do in pronouncing certain public events as unmistakably God's judgment for specific sins), we should pursue a reverent agnosticism about why individual bad things happen.
You don't
speak for God, fishon.
No one's God would ever stand beside this evil fool, thinking that he can
speak for God.
How come in this country one can declare
they speak for god and no - one blinks an eye?
that being said, the real fools are those who purport to
speak for god.
sam I do not need to
speak for God, I simply reveal what is written.
robert brown claims that all believers in the christian god
speak for that god.
It is quite another to
speak for God (as owbaama does) and openly condone, approve, and endorse the sin.
You DO NOT
speak for your god (I get that the believers are the only voice it has, given how it is non-existent).
They seem to think
they speak for God — and yet, they hate the poor, they hate non-whites, they are against abortion — yet love war and guns.
I think organized religion can be dangerous as well as anyone who says
they speak for a God.
The only offers I have received are from humans who claim to
speak for your god.
in terms of the lowest form of humanity, i would say that that is the province of those who claim to
speak for god.
And maybe, just maybe, those who
speak for God would listen, too.
Do you think you have the authority to
speak for God?
We must
speak for God - no matter what people might want us to say.
Ms. Kelly presumes to
speak for God to the church, not only is that not doctrinal, but it is not her place.
Why should a rational adult abdicate their common sense to an organization that claims (again without proof) to
speak for this god.
I don't believe anyone that says
they speak for God or Jesus for that matter.
... because we are people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How can a person
speak for God!!!
This tension between the preacher's duty to
speak for God, on behalf of God, and the enormous presumption, indeed the impossibility, of doing so is at the very root of Barth's theological discovery.
I also have a deep discomfort and disdain for people who claim to
speak for God.
The image above represents what has been my view for a while, that to use the Lord's name in vain is to
speak for God when He never spoke, or ascribe something to God (our actions and behaviors) in ways He never approved.
«he is know way a Christian...» after mentioning God throughout your post, you are now presuming to
speak for God and say that Obama does not fit your understanding so he can't be.
Of course one can point to their knowledge of the Bible, quote some Bible verses, and attempt to establish their authority to
speak for God.
In the past the false prophets always claimed to
speak for God , yet they spoke from their own imagnations.
Amusing how many «christians» that take it upon themselves to
speak for god.
Those who
speak for God and proclaim his politics are a joke.
Good to know that
you speak for god.
And isn't it blasphemy to
speak for god?
In answer to your question — I do not propose to
speak for God, I leave that up to him.
To
speak for God and claim it as truth is mediocre and arrogant... two traits that have become the christian decline.
When opposing voices claiming to
speak for God are recruited to partisan purpose, it reinforces the suspicion that none of them speaks for God, which is a sound suspicion to reinforce.
Those who claim to
speak for God will never concede their fallibility.
Hey Samil... John Piper does not
speak for God.
He is just serving his «massah» by claiming to
speak for God and his gastrointestinal condition..
Jesus may have understood himself to embody God's Spirit in a special way, enabling him to
speak for God and even to forgive sins in God's name.