Revelation or Imagination

While Imagination, dreams and fantasy can be fun for a child
playing in a sand pile, such things are dangerous
when applied to religious thought and doctrine.

It is popular in today’s culture for people to bypass God’s revelation in the Holy Bible and form opinions based on their own, or someone else’s, imagination or whatever happens to be popular in the current culture.  The passage above, from Ezekiel, shows that this is not anything new. Today, people will say things like, “My god is a god …….”, “My god would never…....” or “Paul just didn’t understand…..” and then proceed to proclaim attributes of God and doctrine totally different than what the Bible teaches.  When they do this, their god is one of their own imagination which they have created to suit their own needs and desires.  Their god is, quite simply, an idol which they have made in their fantasy image.  Today, even some ‘Christian’ clergy are involved in relying on their imagination over Biblical teaching.  Examples of this would be the Bible’s teaching on marriage between a man and woman, abortion, and Jesus being the only way to salvation.  The prophet Jeremiah said…. This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you; they fill you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD (Jeremiah 23:16).  One thing remains true today, and that is anything that is believed or taught which contradicts the Bible comes from someone’s imagination and not from God.  A person can choose to believe the Bible or these contradictory opinions. Choose wisely.