[Forest Keeper]

LOL! So, if you saw Jesus and Ezra talking to you, you would possibly ignore Jesus because Ezra may be more genuine?

Now come on. :) You know I didn't say that. Ezra would never talk over Jesus anyway. :) My point was that Jesus can and does speak to us through His own mouth and the mouths of others. This has been true going all the way back. How many times does a prophet say in the OT "This is what the Lord says:..."?

[MarkBsnr]

Now come on. :) You know I didn't say that. Ezra would never talk over Jesus anyway. :) My point was that Jesus can and does speak to us through His own mouth and the mouths of others. This has been true going all the way back. How many times does a prophet say in the OT "This is what the Lord says:..."?

Ummm, God does not speak through Ezra in the Book of Ezra. The point is that Ezra is a man and a man only. He may be inspired by God, but he is not God. Jesus is. The Gospel writers wrote what we understand to be quotations from the mouth of God. Quotations from the mouths of men are not quotations from God, however inspired.

[kosta50]

My point was that Jesus can and does speak to us through His own mouth and the mouths of others...How many times does a prophet say in the OT "This is what the Lord says:..."?

So, that means that the Lord really did say it? Gees...That sounds like "it must be true, I saw it written in the New York Times!" or much better, as one of our Russian assistants once observed "It must be troo, it's in the kopyutor." :)