[This was first posted October 2012, reposted a few more times whenever another act of terror by someone claiming to hear voices in his head is what compelled him to commit mass murder. Lately, international media have been busy covering such horrific acts by lone perpetrators against untold numbers of innocent victims. Is this the new normal in this 6th millennium?
This is the original introduction in our 4th repost in January 2017; it is from Exodus/Shemoth 6: Who’s Who!
What triggered reposting this excerpt is the latest ‘terroristic’ act of yet another lone gunman who fired his legal firearm at hapless travellers in Fort Lauderdale, FLA, USA, killing 5 and wounding 8, as of last report. This man claimed to be hearing voices in his head, except the instructions were about joining ISIS, according to news reports. Military, police, and medical authorities to whom he submitted himself for psychological evaluation all declared him mentally fit enough to continue with life and in fact allowed him to continue owning and carrying his legal firearm.
Well . . . from what resulted in the loss of lives, we wonder whose voice was he hearing? Is ‘hearing voices’ normal in human experience? What do you think? This post simply speculates on that question, revised and expanded for this posting.—Admin1.]
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If you suddenly heard an audible voice speaking to you from out of nowhere (not just in your head), what would you think? How would you react? Would you conclude it’s God speaking to you? If there is not a soul around, you might, but it depends on the message.
If you know the True God and what He has said as recorded in the Hebrew Scriptures, you would recognize His “voice” through His “message.” So how vital is it to know that message, that original revelation?
Now if you were a Christian believing in the devil and his heirarchy of demonic spirits, there are books and books about deception coming from that “demonic” realm so you’d have to be discerning about who’s speaking to you, might be the ENEMY of your soul. That “Christian Devil” as Sinaites call him is well caricatured only in the New Testament scriptures, enough to be recognizable. Just make sure you’re not hearing your own deluded thinking because as our 13-post series on ‘guess what? the ‘devil’ does not exist!‘, we posit all the arguments based on reason (and the Hebrew Bible, i.e. the ‘old’ testament) that the devil is a figment of imagination of those who produced the NT scriptures.
When we receive a phone-call, isn’t the first thing we ask if the voice is unfamiliar, “who is this please?” But the biblical narratives thus far make it appear that hearing God’s voice was the most natural thing for these biblical figures to experience, so they interact with that speaking God . . . just like Moses [in Exodus 6].
Here’s an enigma:
Has any other god (of man’s imagination) ever spoken to humankind except in legends and myths passed on by word of mouth or in written literature (man-made scriptures included) and unquestioningly accepted by generation after generation?
Why should the One True God even feel threatened by the non-existence of non-gods? What other god exists to compete with Him? Obviously none . . . except that He has to constantly compete with gods in men’s minds and belief systems.
How ironic, God creates humankind, and humankind create their gods, subjecting themselves to ideas that control their behaviour by superstition, myths and legends, and scriptures of questionable sources.
Agnostics and atheists are way ahead of religionists.
The study of world religions is truly fascinating, one man or a group of men decide who god is, what god is like, then make rules, convince or coerce others to believe, and a religious system is born. (Please read this post: Revisit: A Crash Course in Comparative Religion).
When you look at the pantheon of any belief system’s gods, could you really believe that men would worship created things, are men that gullible? Especially if the Creator has taken pains to add to the witness of His awesome creation that He indeed exists, His Revelation which now we read in His TORAH, in this time and age?
But alas, who bothers to read the TORAH of YHWH? Out of the manyJews we personally have met, only two, though of course the internet is full of Jewish websites teaching Torah.
As for gentiles, what do you think, dear reader? If you think you’re hearing “God’s voice” in this day and age, you better make sure the message jibes with what He has already said once and for all in His Sinai Revelation. If you haven’t read it, click our current posts on THE TORAH: Chapter by Chapter and start getting to know and hear the true voice through the true message of the One True God. His Name is YHWH, we declare that in this website with all reverence and awe!