Did God----?

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Here is a question I have pondered with no concrete biblical evidence---or more accurately explicit--answer to, that I suspect many have also wondered.

Did God speak out loud to people in the early days after creation. To Moses? To Abraham? Noah and before any of them?

 

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Here is a question I have pondered with no concrete biblical evidence---or more accurately explicit--answer to, that I suspect many have also wondered.

Did God speak out loud to people in the early days after creation. To Moses? To Abraham? Noah and before any of them?

Lol, "You wanna hear God speak? Read the Bible. Oh, you wanna hear him speak out loud? Read the Bible out loud!"

I'm not sure it makes any difference, but I have always thought he spoke out loud to Adam in the Garden, and probably to people for centuries after. One reason to think so is that his dealings with mankind were more plain, back then, and have since developed into now speaking through his word, and by the Spirit of God. Back then, people didn't say, "Jesus is telling me to...whatever" unless God told them directly. The imaginations of their own mind were, in one's own conscience, considered only that. And the false prophets were obvious.

—At least, that is how I see it, and it makes sense to me. It was a different time.


I'm not sure if this passage supports what I just said, or does it, rather, seem to deny it? Hebrews 1:

"1On many past occasions and in many different ways, God spoke to our fathers through the prophets. 2But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe.…"

 

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Lol, "You wanna hear God speak? Read the Bible. Oh, you wanna hear him speak out loud? Read the Bible out loud!"

I'm not sure it makes any difference, but I have always thought he spoke out loud to Adam in the Garden, and probably to people for centuries after. One reason to think so is that his dealings with mankind were more plain, back then, and have since developed into now speaking through his word, and by the Spirit of God. Back then, people didn't say, "Jesus is telling me to...whatever" unless God told them directly. The imaginations of their own mind were, in one's own conscience, considered only that. And the false prophets were obvious.

—At least, that is how I see it, and it makes sense to me. It was a different time.


I'm not sure if this passage supports what I just said, or does it, rather, seem to deny it? Hebrews 1:

"1On many past occasions and in many different ways, God spoke to our fathers through the prophets. 2But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe.…"

I was thinking of that passage when I wrote the OP and again as soon as I began to read your post. Just to be clear, I know that he spoke to humans in various ways through the prophets (did they hear his audible voice?) and now he speaks to us through Christ and his word.

And to give my own answer to my own question above, he must have spoken audibly to the prophets. Anything less in a human becomes subjective, just as it is today when people thing God is speaking to them. How do you know it isn't your own imagination?

 

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I was thinking of that passage when I wrote the OP and again as soon as I began to read your post. Just to be clear, I know that he spoke to humans in various ways through the prophets (did they hear his audible voice?) and now he speaks to us through Christ and his word.

And to give my own answer to my own question above, he must have spoken audibly to the prophets. Anything less in a human becomes subjective, just as it is today when people thing God is speaking to them. How do you know it isn't your own imagination?

I'm pretty sure that when it is God, and he wants it to be clear, whether others accuse one of madness, or imagination, he can make it absolutely clear without use of one's ears. A deaf man who doesn't know any language can hear him, I think. I tend to think of the NT writers that way. They spoke God's words, not by imagination, but also not by registering vibrations in the air. When Samuel was a boy, he "heard" God speak, but Eli didn't.

To be honest, I'm pretty sure that all of the things people claim, from, "God said, I said", stories to, "God gave me this song", to "Thus Saith The Lord", are pretty clearly NOT directly from God through them to us. I will say that MOST are bogus-, but I can't say that they are all bogus- as far as from God to them, private things, some of them even misused by the recipient. The Spirit of God does 'speak' to us, and we do "quench" that. God does open eyes, ears and hearts.