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I don't need to document what missionaries have told me. Most of these missionaries are in areas of the world that are hostile to the gospel and I am not going to name names or locations given that I don't want to jeopardize their lives.

No double speak at all.

Neither of those indicate that we need to be regenerated in order to receive the Gospel. Eph. 2:8,9 is about the fact that we are not saved by works, but are saved by grace through faith. I Cor. 2:14 says that the natural man cannot receive the things of God, but that is in a context...

I find it interesting that we don't see these hundreds of thousands of occurrences in other areas of the world where people have never heard of a Bible or Jesus or anything like that. I know some missionaries in areas of the Muslim world that are quite hostile to the gospel, who have never...

What I said is that the Bible contains all that we need to meet the needs of the human heart (soul/spirit). The Bible's message of salvation can be understood and accepted by the unregenerate. The Bible is not a completely closed book to sinners. I am not contradicting John 16:8. It is not...

So some allege. I don't necessarily believe those accounts.

Okay, but the purpose of dreams sent by God is revelatory and there is no more revelation from God.

There is no way you can look at the sin and destruction tha tis happening in this world and seriously claim that the Holy Spirit is poured out on "all flesh." That is simply not supported by condition this world is in. Wrong. All I said is that the Holy Spirit is not poured out on all flesh...

If you can't refute it, then it stands as is. If I am wrong, in what I said, show me. If not, I will not lose any sleep over what you think about it.

Yeah, it does. There is nothing a vision can do that the indwelling of the Holy Spirit can't already do. If you have God living inside you guiding you, enlightening the eyes of your heart, illuminating His Word, providing an inner witness to your heart, why would you need a vision? Why isn't...

If I am wrong, refute it. If not, it stands as is.

What I am saying is that God's final message, His final revelation of Himself to the world is Jesus. God spoke to mankind differently in the past, through the visions and dreams of the prophets and now He is speaking to us through Jesus. That revelation is contained in the Bible. In...

The Bible says nothing about a person needing to be regenerated in order to hear and receive the Gospel. That concept is not in the Bible. That is a Calvinist teaching that has no basis in biblical theology. You are the one that needs to support that unbiblical teaching.

I think that verse pretty much sinks future visions and dreams from the Lord. He is speaking to us through His Son, not through visions and dreams. In fact, there is no biblical basis for the NT Church to be receiving dreams and visions any longer. Paul points us to the Word of God which...

There is no inability for someone to read and understand the Gospel before they are saved. They don't have to be "regenerated" to understand and respond to the Gospel message.

I am skeptical of those claims

That's not an issue of the Bible needing reinforcement. The Bible doesn't need any help. The problem is with us, not in any deficiency in the Bible.

Jesus is the final revelation of God to man. God spoke to us in various ways in the past, but Jesus is how God speaks to us today. Expanding on that fact, we don't need visions and dreams and God is not sending us dreams and visions since Jesus is God's final message to us. Everything God...

I have not moved any goal posts. Jesus is God's final Word of God to man. Yes the final revelation of Jesus was the book of Revelation. I don't see the problem with understanding that there are no further revelations from God, and thus there will not be any more special visions or dreams...