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#4 Continuing Revelation- Christians believe and agree with the statement that God speaks to His children on earth. The difference lays in the way we view our intimate communication and relationship with God. In prayer we speak to God. We ask Him for His intervention in our lives and we faithfully believe that He responds to our prayers. Are we going to say we just received a divine revelation from God, or call ourselves prophets? Are we going to record the message and call it divine inspiration or a revelation from God, and demand to be included as Scripture? Certainly not. The Bible is sufficient enough. We believe that His Divine Inspiration ended with the 66 books of the Canonic Bible. God’s message of redemption and the mission
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