Objective Ignorance

With all the widespread claims by so called "Christians" who believe that God is speaking directly to them through dreams, visions, and personal prophecies or even the audible voice of the Almighty. You know you've heard them say things like "I heard the voice of the Lord," "The voice of God spoke to me," or "I received a word from the Lord" and my favorite "God told me," and then they begin to tell you some bizarre story that could never be back up by Scripture. So the question is should Christians really buy into any revelation of God that comes from a subjective source?

"It seems particularly unfortunate that there would be such an affinity for subjective "revelations" in an era when the average "born-again Christian" is so ignorant of the objective revelation God has given us in the Bible. When knowledge of Scripture is at such an ebb, this is the worst possible time for believers to be seeking divine truth in dreams, visions, and subjective impressions." - John MacArthur

Excerpt taken from "Reckless Faith: When the Church Loses Its Will To Discern" Copyright 1994 by John F. MacArthur, Jr. , pg.180-181