The Mouth of God

Is God really speaking?

You learn best when you are personally involved in the learning experience. This is a general rule of education, it speaks to our ability to learn and the idea that we incorporate new knowledge when we are part of the experience.

In connection with our relationship with God, we are committed and are personally invested in the learning experience that comes with hearing from God (i.e. prayer, reading our bible, talking with others about our relationship with God). What if this means that because we are simply personally involved, we are learning and incorporating new knowledge into our lives as part of our experience in "trying to hear from God" and that God is actually never speaking, we are just learning through our experiences?

Another rule is that knowledge has to be discovered yourself if it is to mean anything to you or make a difference in your behavior.

Again, are the reasons I want to change or modify my behavior simply because I have figured out some incredible knowledge on my own by experiencing it and want to incorporate it into my life? Or is God modifying my behavior and causing me to want to change?

Commitment to learning is highest when you are free to set your own learning goals and actively pursue them within a given framework.

I like this model of learning: if Christianity is our frame work, to induce a high level of learning, we should allow everyone to activley pursue any of the goals that they set within that frame work. We will change more and it will be more meaningful if we are allowed to pursue goals of our own.

I know God has made us to learn and adapt to new information, even as we explore and learn more about who God is, we are changing our behaviors and these ideas and concepts become more meaningful as we experience them. It is just interesting to think that perhaps God doesn't have to speak at all, that He has already spoken and has made us in such a way that we will experience His spoken word, incorporate it into our lives and make it meaningful as we live it out, without ever having to open His mouth again.