Perhaps you may recognize this condition in particular relating to the Jews:
But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away.If such is the condition of those charged with carrying the very “oracles of God,” how much worse condition is found of those who are also unregenerate.
Dreams
Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by Salty, May 16, 2019.
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As the precious 'Geneva Bible' notes at Acts 7:55, regarding Stephen and other Martyrs' glimpses into heaven:
55 ¹But he being full of the holy Ghost, looked steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus ²standing at the right hand of God,
¹The nearer that the Martyrs approach to death, the nearer they beholding Christ, do rise up even into heaven.
https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/GenevaBible.pdf
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Such as this account involving Ann Gifford and her husband Andrew who was one of the signers of the vaunted 1689 London Baptist Confession, prior to one of his imprisonments for preaching the Gospel:
https://reformedbaptista.wordpress.com/2015/02/02/the-women-behind-the-1689-mrs-gifford
"the night before his apprehension....His wife dreamed that he arose to go out to preach according to his appointment; but upon opening the door, the very first step he took was up to his knees in snow...that he was seized by two particular men, whose names she mentioned, and brought to the Sun Tavern, that then was without Lawford’s Gate, and there confined in a dining room, being placed behind a particular table in it; and one of them, by main force, held him down by leaning on his right shoulder and the other on his left."
"It made such an impression that she awakened with the fright, and told him of it....They arose, and upon opening the door to the yard, they found there had fallen a great snow since they went to bed, with a severe frost, that had driven up to the house, so that the first step indeed was up to his knees....he was taken according to her dream, and every particular circumstance of it was the next day exactly fulfilled." -
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And besides, the Bible doesn't use the word "regenerated" to refer to some intermediary state between being unsaved and saved. -
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My rule is to never discount the work of God in the live of another person. If they say God spoke to them, I'll accept it until what was said does not line up. If they dreamed a dream or saw a vision, then who am I to question their experience....until it does not line up with Scripture.
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In the Bible dreams and visions were revelatory, they imparted previously unknown information that wasn't previously known or available. There was a purpose to dreams and visions because they did not have it revealed to them in Scripture. Dreams and visions were not teaching tools, per se. Ananias in Acts 9 would not have been able to line his vision up with Scripture, neither would Peter, and others because their visions contained new information not previously revealed.
Since we have the Bible and it is complete, we don't need visions or dreams to tell us what we already have revealed to us in the Bible. -
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Paul didn't say they don't understand because they are unable. He didn't say they don't seek God because they are unable to seek God until God allows them to do so. My point is that you cannot produce a passage that says anything about a person being unable to respond to God unless God makes it possible for them to respond.
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