I read some of it. I couldn’t stomach the rest.
It’s the same old nonsense that people give, as if Christ is speaking to the rest of the world through them. Same style, which is not at all in the style which Scripture is written.
Special revelation is over. We have the word of God and that’s all we need.
If He needs to convict someone of sin, He doesn’t need to use some self-appointed mouthpiece of God. The Holy Spirit can and will do it HIMSELF.
On an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. I remember Chris asking him about preaching salvation and Osteen’s reply was...” I am not about all that, I am about making people feel good about themselves.”....At another time he states..”If you do your best God is pleased with you so start feeling good about yourself.”
His comments are a mix of everything from Naploean Hill, The Proseprity Gospel,to New Age quotes and focus....and anything else which he can use to ride the edge of Christianity without the commitment to Christ...rather it’s a call to ones self and to follow his steps or buy his book so he can give you “the keys” to “look inside yourself and see your greatness”.
As background for mine, I had been reading a lot peoples' accounts of their near death experiences and after reading Heaven is For Real I was still hungry for more. I found a similarly titled book, Heaven is Real, But So Is Hell by Vassula Ryden, and couldn't resist checking it out, especially so after the impact that My Descent Into Death: A Second Chance At Life had on me.
One book leads to another, and when I finally started reading the messages in True Life In God, I was blown away. I had no trouble believing that God had chosen a mouthpiece, so to speak, for our time, to speak to us in our modern language, given what the world was going through and how far it has degenerated.
And, despite the atheists in my life, I have no trouble accepting the supernatural, as that is obviously what the Holy Trinity, Heaven, the hierarchy of angles, etc. are all about.
None the less, the Bible had always been difficult for me to understand. I read it and, seeing it literally as I did, along with the trouble I had with King James English, it made little sense.
And as an added bonus, I had learned in a college history class that the Puritans supposedly would have said someone like me with such difficulty wasn't one of the chosen.
Oh well...too bad, so sad, sucks to be me. Besides, it wasn't like I saw a lot of Christians while growing up who were actually living what they claimed they believed in, which added to my difficulty. Being adopted by an atheist with even stronger issues with preachers and holier than thou christians, added to my cross I didn't even know I had.
The material I've been reading lately, primarily the NDEs and now the messages in TLIG, along with a parallel Bible to look up all the quotes and references in TLIG, have changed my understanding.
Like I said, I have no trouble believing she was chosen to do what she's doing. I know that there is much more to the world than most of us can see or sense and I have lived why there is a need for God's Mouthpiece at this time.
I was very excited to share TLIG with everyone and I am so naive that I was completely surprised that others didn't have the same reactions I did, the same amazement and wonder. A sign of our times, I think, but it still surprises me now within some circles.
Apologies for more info than you likely want or need, but I thought I should offer a second opinion for you or anyone else who might be curious.
Your posts on this have offered a window to a view I couldn't see very well before. Thank you for showing it to me. It's helpful.