A Dialogue With God Is Biblical

By Corinne Kelley


People often wonder if it's possible to have a dialogue with God. Christians who pray and sing praises daily may not believe that the deity will answer verbally. Others attest to conversations with the Lord, and we might trust their accounts if we are sure of their godliness and integrity. Is there a way to find out the truth?

Many theologians have given answers to this question, but Christians have a more reliable way to find truth. God's inspired word is the Bible, which is our way to know God, learn how He operated in the past, read His promises about the future, and see how we are to respond to Him. The teaching of men and women of God can help us understand the scriptures but should never replace them.

In the scriptures, we find records of actual verbal exchanges between the Lord and man. God instructed Adam on how to live in the garden, including a warning not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. We do not find Adam's response to these commands, but later he does answer the Lord.

However, we do find a true conversation when Adam and Eve are hiding after their disobedience. When God called, 'Where are you?', the man answered. Later God talks to Cain about his rejected offering and again about his crime in killing his brother Abel. Cain also answers the Lord.

Enoch had a close relationship with his Lord as he walked with him for three hundred years. Enoch was the first man not to die; the Lord simply took him away. It seems safe to assume that conversations guided Noah to spend one hundred years making a boat and collecting animals, and Abram to leave his home for unknown regions. We do know that the Lord appeared to Abraham (his new name) in the form of an angel and they talked together.

Moses is the man who perhaps talked to the Lord more than any other. The Bible says that this humble man was the greatest of the prophets and that God knew him face to face. Since then, the account tells us, there has not been his equal. The Lord called Samuel in the temple at night; both Samuel and Eli heard His voice and Samuel answered Him.

New Testament accounts include Saul's conversion on the road to Damascus. Paul later says that he spent the next three days blind but in the company of the Lord, who he got to know in the same way that the other apostles did - which infers seeing and speaking to Jesus as well as being appointed to the work of the kingdom.

We are told that God never changes, so there is no reason to think that a dialogue with God is impossible. Any interaction with our heavenly father will have to align with the scriptures; Christians should always evaluate an experience to ensure it fits the self-portrait that God has given us in His Word.




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