Revealed

Garrett Lambur
The first chapter of the Intro to Christianity book is titled God As Revealed in the Bible and this strikes a particular chord for myself. I am incredibly skeptical of people who say that God has spoken through them or revealed himself. For reasons I can’t truly specify I am very wary of those who claim this experience, part of it is fear that they may only be using it for personal gain. I have no issue with those who say they have found God or Jesus Christ because I do not feel they are attempting to claim that he spoke through them. Past history has only sought to increase my wariness of those claiming to be a vessel for the word of God. I have heard too many stories of the massive Churches that have huge TV audiences and personal greed becoming too much for the minister. There are ads on TV where the minister/preacher claims that he will imbue a handkerchief or something like that with the power Jesus for the low cost of $29.95 plus shipping and handling. Seriously? A minister/preacher has the ability to instill a piece of cloth with the power of Jesus? Wouldn’t he be doing better things with his life than selling these so called powers to the masses? I don’t remember any of the stories of Jesus involving himself selling anything he did to make money. As a result of hearing more and more of these stories I have become incredibly skeptical of those claiming to be speaking the word of God or something similar to this. Personal greed, yes a possible side-effect of capitalism or wait, any type of economical system, helps to weaken the trust for what is told to you by complete strangers.