…just when I thought I’d heard it all.
I saw a client a few weeks ago who told me her husband was having an affair. She didn’t become suspicious until she found some correspondence from the other woman.
She should have become suspicious when her husband said, “God told me you were going to die soon.” (I’m trying to picture that pick-up line: “Yes I’m married; but it’s okay ’cause God told me she was going to die soon.”)
The amazing thing is not that he said it or that she believed him. I’m shocked at the physicians who ran numerous and expensive tests based not on her complaints or symptoms, but on her husband’s declaration.
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Oh my. There’s a new one.
I was with my pastor once when a man came up to him on a Sunday morning and said, “God told me that I am supposed to preach for you this morning.” I wondered what he would do, and smiled when he replied, “well, He didn’t tell me that, and until He does, I’ll be preaching this morning.”
I’m always wary anytime anyone said, “God told me…”
Jasonk,
That same guy must’ve come by our church in Texas in the mid-nineties. My response to him was “Well, that’s strange because God told me to prepare a sermon for this Sunday morning.” To which he looked thoughtful for a minute and then said “Is it a good one?”
I wasn’t sure how to respond.
Wow, was that a “word of knowlege?”
Kevin, you mean a word of “carnal” knowlege :>)
Jason & Kevin,
I’m thinking there are four possiblities: 1) God really did give him knowledge of her impending demise, 2) It was a delusion (a mental illness), 3) It was wishful thinking on his part (to justify an affair), or 4) It was a threat.
I’m not willing to diagnosis someone I’ve never met – and I realize I’ve only heard one side of the story – but I think it was a wise move on her part to make sure her therapist, her attorney, and her pastor all know of his revelation from God… just in case it really was a threat.
Seriously,
I hope he won’t hurt the lady.
The “God told me to…” line is the least effective argument I know of. Simply because there can be no argument. Sure, you can say “No He didn’t”, but that accomplishes nothing. You cannot argue against it factually or scripturally.
My response is normally “we shall see”.
Pat Robertson is a case in point.
Well, technically the guy is right, she is going to die. When, we don’t know, but she will someday.
Whoa! I better write that one down in the back of my Bible if God “spoke”…
Josh
“…the word of God is not bound.”
–2 Timothy 2:9
I thought I heard just about it all in my internship, but apparently I have not. I can’t wait to share this tid bit with my supervision group.