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every day, and my friend was right. God did speak to me through the Bible. The Bible made sense out of my life. God’s voice came to me through the Bible giving me direction and hope, and increasing my faith. So I became a very serious student of the Bible. Sometime during my first year of reading the Bible, I began to wonder about all the supernatural phenomena in the Bible. I asked a teacher about the miracles in the Bible and about the dreams and visions of the prophets. Should we expect these things to happen today? Not really, was the answer. Why? Because now we have the Bible, God’s complete Word, and we no longer need these things. And that was fine for me. The Bible had done so much for me already, why would I want anything else? I went to the university and got my first degree in philosophy. Some students lose their faith in God when they take courses in philosophy. My faith in God was strengthened. There is a reason that the Bible outsells all of the philosophy books ever printed. There is a reason that the Bible is the bestselling book of all time. It makes sense out of life and helps people discover their purpose in life. Man’s best thinking without God leads to confusion and despair. I did my masters and doctorate degrees in theology. My professors also shared my love of the Bible. They also told me that we no longer needed the supernatural experiences of the Bible now that we had the completed Bible. They told me that the only way God spoke to us these days was through the Bible. They also told me that dreams and visions were dangerous because the devil used those means of communication now. They told me that if I tried to hear God speak outside the Bible that this was “subjective,” and that subjective revelation would lead us away
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