You're a big fan of the Old Testament, I see. I respect that. But I don't consider modern day psychics to be prophets. They are not claiming to be passing along the word of God. They are not penning their own books to the Bible (surely there are nut-cases who are, but I'm not referencing them in general here). They are sharing what their gifts give them.
You and I will not come to complete agreement. Each person who reads the Bible with gain from it what they need... it's a living work. Divinely inspired to reach everyone who reads it and to give that person what they need. We can not interpret it definitively without speaking with those who's experiences it based on or God himself. I'm glad you find strength and resolve in your readings. I'm glad I have found the humility to know that all of God's words can't fit in a small book, He is infinite, and He may have done/will do many things far beyond what we know or believe.
To each, our own. Good luck to you William.
Thanks for the civility, but you seem to neatly avoid confronting the implications of your own words.
We can not interpret it definitively without speaking with those who's experiences it based on or God himself.
So basically anyone can interpret anything in the Bible to mean whatever they want. So maybe Jesus didn't really mean "love thy neighbor." Maybe it's really okay to cheat and murder people, because the relevant dictums may not, as you phrase it, "give me what I need."
I give God enough to credit to believe that he is capable of communicating his intent quite clearly to anyone who wishes to actually examine the writings for their true meaning. I'm not egotistical enough to think that I know better what the words and phrases mean than the linguistic scholars who translate them from the ancient manuscripts. And I don't believe that God constantly contradicts himself, as you apparently do. There will always be those who twist the words, but they do so in contradiction to scholarship and the consistent nature of God.