Don’t you wish the NSA was around at the beginning of history. I find myself wondering what kind of things God had to say to Adam and Eve. We have one short record of their conversations, but the familiarity with which God spoke to them tells me that this is not the only time that he talked with him. What did they talk about? If only Siri or Alexa could tell us.
What about Abraham and the other patriarchs? What about Moses? What did God have to say to the prophets that did not get recorded? I would imagine that God spoke to a lot of people at different times and no one bothered to write it down. Did the farmer in Judah ask God to explain how to get better quality honey? Did his daughter ask it the boy next door liked her?
Or take unrecorded events.
Paul’s shipwrecks are not written down. The one we have recorded took place after this.
(2Co 11:25 KJV) Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;We do not know about the other two. We know that he also wrote at least one more letter to the Corinthians. I would expect that he wrote letters to other churches too, but we have no record.
I would imagine that Satan visited God and more times than are recorded in the book of Job. He must have had some interesting reports about what he saw. I guess God figured we would have enough trouble deciphering the book of Job so He didn’t give us any of the others.
Then take the last verse in the Gospel of John,
(Joh 21:25 KJV) And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.Now that would make some interesting reading.
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