“Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers. 2 And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. 3 So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. 4 Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. 5 You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you.
Deuteronomy 8:1-5
The immediate context was the Torah given to the Israelites by Moses.
By practical application, any word that comes from the mouth of the Lord would also be of equal weight. Many of the Old Testament prophets of God heard audibly from God and were given specific messages for others that would often start with: "Thus saith the LORD..."
On a personal level, I believe that God does guide His own but does not use prophecy today as He did before the Bible was completed.
I had a quick glance at bible
Chronological Order just as a guide and from Genesis ch1 to the new testament was approx 4000 years of OT history.
In that time there is a huge catologue of (Jewish) events where God supposedly spoke to makind and performed so called miracles.
Then we have the NT where Jesus comes along and we get more miracles, which was ~2000 years ago.
Now a slight diversion in thinking; we know humans are bs artists and 'full of sin', rotten to the core. If you were to run a very large prosperous multinational company, you would only employ the best salespeople and managers, with excellent credentials.
We also know what the bible says about false prophets, if something doesn't happen it's come from a false prophet.
So, getting back to so called Gods word:
"Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God" according to the bible, the first 4000 years of life on earth we had multiple instances of God's presence, now these last 2000 years it's gone strangely silent.
Don't include christian preachers, they are like corrupt salespeople the multinational company do not wish to employ.
If God is a spirit, why resort to using man made books printed by corrupt people to get your message across?
I'll give the answer, because the bible as the answer to humanity is nothing but a scam where in the early days less sophisticated people were reeled in hook line and sinker by grandiose claims and promises.
We only need to look at current politics to see that huge scams are still flavour of the month.
I'd say, in days gone by, scammers were just a prevelent as they are today.
