>>>(How Does God Speak in a Pluralistic Society?)
The best answer that I can give is to say that God speaks to everyone through the voice of conscience. The image that comes immediately to my mind is of the Elijah, the Hebrew prophet of the most High God who, almost immediately after single handedly defeating 450 prophets of a lesser god in a contest to demonstrate the power to summon divine fire from the heavens, fled in terror from the wrath of Israelite Queen Jezebel and hid in a cave. While he was in the cave there came a mighty wind and an earthquake and a fire but the scriptures say the Lord was not in the wind or in the earthquake or in the fire, but rather the Lord spoke to him in the sound of a gentle blowing or as the King James Version of the Bible calls it, a still, small voice.<<<
God speaks to everyone through the voice of conscience? Silly me, I thought He spoke through His Word. Of course what they leave is out is key. After Elijah showed the prophets to be followers of a false god, i.e. not the God of the Bible, he didn't immediately flee. He first....
1Kings 18:39-40 39And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces
and said, "The LORD, he is God; the LORD, he is God." 40 And Elijah said to
them, "Seize the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape." And they seized
them. And Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon and slaughtered them
there.
Not quite the picture of ecumenism they painted is it? Elijah didn't try to understand the prophets of Baal, he slaughtered them. I am not advocating that (probably), but this is what happens when you only read the parts of the Bible you find palatable. I guess I shouldn't expect anything different from a webpage called the "Mainstream Baptist" (in other words, the Liberal Baptist. Why do they hide from that word I wonder?)
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