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Further, I assert that when any of His children do not understand His revelations in Scripture – they should ask Him about it and not lean on their own understanding – a tendency of man which leads to anthropomorphizing God into a small “god” the puny, mortal mind can comprehend

Just make sure you get a positive ID on the voices that come back in your head...

Out of curiosity, how do you know God is speaking back to you? Does the voice say "Alamo-Girl" and you answer "Here I am"? And then He says "I am the Lord your God..."? That's biblical! :)

Or do you kind of "know" (there goes that gnosis again) it's God because...Or does it just "make sense?" Makes sense? Does Incarnation make sense?

Or do you have a secret "handle" when God talks back to you...kind of like a special "tune" that's positively only God's?

Are you sure it's not you talking back to you?

God is not "there" as in returning a phone call. When I pray, He responds directly and personally "here" in me.

IOW, His Spirit dwells in me and has for nearly a half century.

It's not that I know Him but rather that He knows me.

There is no need for a Q&A, Litmus Test or Identification - or a "Here I am" with Him replying "I am the Lord your God..."

All of that has changed since Pentecost (emphasis mine:)

[There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit...For to be carnally minded [is] death; but to be spiritually minded [is] life and peace. Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his... – Romans 8

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye [are] the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. – John 15:4-5

Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, [even] the hidden [wisdom], which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known [it], they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

But God hath revealed [them] unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. II Cor 2:6-16

To God be the glory!

Or do you kind of "know" (there goes that gnosis again)

Kosta, you continually try to equate all "knowing" with "gnosticism." And that is a mistake.

"The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple." -- Psalm 119:130

"Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more." -- Hebrews 10:15-17

Christian "knowing" is God-given through Scripture; discerned via the work of the Holy Spirit; confirmed by a right-division of God's word through a presbytery of like-minded believers; and stands or falls in evidence by its fruits.

A gnostic "knowing" floats in the ether and attaches to it no evidence nor consensus.

A Christian "knowing" created capitalism and prosperity throughout the world. What have the Greeks produced but a lot of question marks and an erroneous belief in a dispassionate, distant God?