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Vernon Talks to God
Vernon Howell skipped school one day because he wanted to talk to God. He went to his church and got down on his knees and prayed.
“Dear Father, I know I’m stupid, but please talk to me ’cause I want to serve you.”¹
God answered soon after. Vernon could hear Him in his heart, and they had some great discussions. A few years later, God tried to cheer nineteen-year-old Vernon up after a sixteen-year-old girl broke his heart when he got her pregnant.
“You’re really hurt, aren’t you? You love her, and she’s turned her back on you, rejected you.” God said.
God even promised that Vernon’s girlfriend would eventually return to him. But He lied. Vernon soon lost contact with the girl forever.
That should have given him a clue that the voice he heard did not actually belong to God. Still, it was a rather open-ended prophecy, and it wasn’t conclusively proven false until Vernon died without ever being reunited with his first love.
Suppose we take Vernon at his word that he actually heard a voice which he assumed was God. We have just eliminated the possibility that it actually was God, a…
