Reply #111: The psalm may not be clear

[jbnow]

But the verse from acts is.
"And on My servants and on My handmaidens,
I will pour out in those days of My Spirit;
And they shall prophesy."
couldn't be much clearer.

Not to say this is those times.

While you think "Jesus eliminated the reason for God not needing prophets anymore" I would say his coming opened the door for us to have a more personal relationship with God...or the "holy spirit". He also says we are "not under law, but under grace"

To me that means if we feel the call of spirit, if we feel that presence of grace...we honor that. (And how do we honor all the laws when it comes to the old testament anyway? We'd have to kill shell fish eaters and ask women if they were menstruating and ask men if they had a penile discharge before we let them serve our food or sit on our furniture and so on)

God's gift to someone might be that they do hear spirit. Who would we be to tell them to ignore the gift?

I go the other way when I read the bible. That is I know there are translations easier to understand, but if I am interested in a verse I look into the history of the translation. The original languages make translating complex, whether it is not using vowels, or not having spaces between the words or any capitalization or punctuation. Sometimes they have to make a choice between several potential meanings.

In any case the Psalm verse was one I looked into long ago and it was closer to that the heavens gush forth speech that offers knowledge and discernment. It sounded to me like...astrology could be based on divine principal.

Anything “occult” or not occult can be used for good or for bad...and spirit can speak through anything it wants I imagine.

I don’t know what you mean by Christian. I honor Christ. I don’t like religion. But then Jesus also sais “wherever two or three of you gather in my name, there am I in the midst of you”.