God weights the heart, what was the initial intent of the translation, was it to accurately preserve what God has written? If so then I believe God can speak to our heart through that version. The above mentioned CEV is intentionally corrupted and they state it upfront in ‘well meaning’ language and should be avoided unless God is using it to make a comparison. The verse that God gave to me Gen 3:22 God used to show why there are gender based differences in scriptures, and He used that version (CEV), and had me compare it to the NASB and NIV. Also at one time he had me compare scriptures of Gen 2,3 to the creation story in the Koran to point out other aspects.
Occult practices such as yoga can connect you with ‘higher powers’ as man is made a bit lower then angels, which would include fallen angels, so they would be higher powers then man. When we try to train the mind to ‘ignore’ the physical we are left with better contact with the spiritual.
BTW I have never heard the Lord speak audibly, unless you are counting dreams, which are scriptural. I have had words and phrases sort of added into thought, but not audible, there was no sound.
As I stated above, if the intent of the translation is to preserve God’s message then it’s OK, As scriptures speak to the head while the Word speaks to the heart. God can use any version if the, attempt is honest, to speak to our hearts. God knows we are imperfect, He expects us to make mistakes, and He covers them. But when we no longer trust Him and think we in ourselves can do better by modifying them, He steps back and usually no longer covers us.
As stated above I was questioning the gender based issues, which lead me to Gen 3:22, and the Lord used the CEV and pointed out that that version was not what He said, but by comparison of that to other ones I would see why.
We are instructed to speak boldly in the name of the Lord.
Please leave me out of your silly monster stuff. Or I could use that to see how illogical your reasoning is,you sound to me like some one arguing that 2+1= 5 because you were once told by a younger child that it was. It seems that in your way of thinking you and only a handful of your peers are going to Heaven because every one else doesn’t share your beliefs, that is not how Jesus spoke, and you talk in circles.
Im with you, I read the Bible through over 20 times I think it was about 24, I and (a friend prayed too) be led to the truth, I then saw the Bible was not written by God, but by humans when I studied it more and saw the contradictions. Then the study of history, archeology, the Dead Sea Scrolls etc. I studied the history of the Bible and could see the errors.
I have no beef with people who disagree with me as I believe faith is a personal thing, and I see people like Polycarp,Tomdebb and others who see a kind loving God,who created a flawed creature and knows they will make mistakes, that sounds to me more like the Jesus in the Bible than the Monster creating terrible Father that kanicbird worships who gives Satan power to destroy His children.
I am going to answer this, not because it is directed at me, but to reflect back at you. The answer is no and for that matter never with and illegal drugs either. And the following is IMHO:
Those people who have done such things have usually experienced spiritual things by numbing out the physical body, leaving only their spiritual self, which is in a far different place then our physical world, but no less real, actually more real. This can be done by meditation and also the case when we are in the womb, where our physical selves are in a environment where they are sensory deprived, so they sense the spiritual world and just have a hint of the physical (once born the physical overpowers the spiritual). And the Holy Spirit can inform us of the spiritual.
Those people have seen the links between the spiritual and physical, and have certain knowledge that can not be obtained just in the physical world, for instant some places on earth are places that are good, others places of evil, unless you have the ability to sense the spiritual it doesn’t make any sense as a place is a place physically. Addicts via shutting their eyes to the physical have experienced the physical, not a good way to go about it but it does work.
Since it takes a person about a year to read the Bible and if one really pushes it I’ve heard 3 months, how could you have read it over 20 times? Have you really read every book of the Bible through at least once?
The bible, both the old and new testaments together is about 1000 pages, which means that if you read 20 pages a day, you can get it done in less than 2 months.