Jesus and Little John.

[tango]

"And the people of Berea were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, and they listened eagerly to Paul’s message.
They searched the Scriptures day after day to see if Paul and Silas were teaching the truth." (Acts 17:11 NLT)

"All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right." (2 Tim. 3:16 NLT)

Any extra Biblical revelations, as mentioned above, are therefore Not from God. Beware !

I'm not sure your conclusion is valid from your starting points. All Scripture is inspired and we should search the Scriptures but that doesn't mean God can't speak through other means.

If we believe God is calling us to do something the chances are we won't find chapter and verse that confirms it. A couple of people in my church have approached me about possibly teaching. It confirms something I felt God was calling me to do. There isn't a verse anywhere in Scripture that says "God calls tango to teach in church"

I'm told one of the people who tagged me as a possible teacher has a strong gift of discernment (I don't know him well enough to comment one way or the other on that). He suggested my name to one of the elders, who had independently thought I could be a good teacher. Scripture may affirm that God called "some" to be teachers but whether I'd make a great teacher, an OK teacher or an utterly worthless teacher isn't something you'll find anywhere in the Bible.

Scripture may invalidate a claimed revelation - to take a silly example if I told my pastor I felt God was calling me to be a porn star I don't imagine it would take him very long to find Scriptures that speak against that sort of thing, thereby making very clear that my leading wasn't coming from God.

Paul told the Thessalonians not to quench the Spirit and not to despise prophecies but to test.

 

[NSH]

in my humble opinion, in spiritual matters, a huge red flag is the 'dictation by force' as commanded by Jesus, in the story of these writings. It does not mean the author was not sincere, but she was possibly misled by several factors of 'intent' and therefore misunderstood the scope of these messages.

Whole chapters of our Bible are the collected letters that were just everyday writings from one party to another. God did not need to dictate special words: He was breathing in the situations themselves where the sacred writings emerged.

In my own writings and countless notebooks, I have encountered a few brief moments of divine dictation, and the Holy Spirit is not in the business of commanding new scriptures to be written: it is far easier for the Holy Spirit to speak through the mouths of people behind the lecterns of Churches and in pulpits than to start with a pen and paper in someones notebook.

Not saying it does not happen (I know Jesus speaks to lots of folks), but that these writing excerpts have red flags of 'deeply entrenched cultural norms' that to me distance them from the authentic spiritual voice I have come to know over many years of prayer and listening.