GOD SPEAKING IN SUNDRY TIMES AND DIVERSE MANNERS

 WHAT IF GOD ONLY SPOKE IN SUNDRY TIMES AND DIVERSE MANNERS?

By Jonas T.  Suizo

 To imagine a world where God speaks only in sundry times and diverse manners—without law, without an incarnate Christ who walks, eats, suffers, and lives among people, and without a true teaching servant—is to imagine a world that is spiritually fragmented, morally unstable, and eternally uncertain. At first glance, such a world might appear religious, even mystical, but in truth it would be a place where certainty is impossible and truth is endlessly disputed. When revelation is scattered and inconsistent, every generation reinvents God in its own image. One speaks from visions, another from dreams, another from omens, nature, fear, intuition, philosophy, or personal impulse. Truth becomes fragmented, versioned, and privatized. Everyone claims divine authority, yet none can prove it. This is how paganism multiplied, how idol systems prospered, how ancestor worship grew, and how fear-based religion took hold—sincere in devotion, yet never secure in truth.

 Without a revealed law, such a world would also lack a moral anchor. If there is no clear commandment, no objective definition of right and wrong, morality does not disappear—it mutates. It becomes tribal, emotional, political, and survival-based. Power begins to define righteousness. The strong re-label evil as “necessary,” and the weak rebrand revenge as “justice.” In this environment, sin does not vanish; it only changes costume. Lawlessness does not create freedom—it creates confusion where cruelty can hide behind justification. Without law, conscience loses its compass, and societies drift according to appetite rather than truth.

 Even more devastating would be the absence of an incarnate God. If God never walked among men, never grew weary, never hungered, never suffered betrayal, never endured violence, and never tasted death, then humanity would forever question whether God truly understands human pain. Judgment would feel distant and cold. Worship would lean toward fear rather than love. Obedience would become survival rather than trust. Christianity stands alone in its radical claim that God did not merely speak to suffering—He entered it. Remove Jesus from the story, and faith becomes a guess instead of a relationship (that is to be born again in spirit), speculation instead of assurance. A distant deity can command, but only an incarnate God can redeem and create man into becoming a new creature from within the human condition.

 Equally dangerous is the absence of a true teaching servant. If God speaks but never sends prophets, teachers, apostles, or witnesses, then every person becomes their own spiritual authority. This leads to private religion, self-made doctrine, and spiritual narcissism—the belief that one needs no correction because God speaks directly and exclusively to oneself. History proves that such a condition breeds cults, fanaticism, and spiritual abuse. A God who speaks without sending teachers leaves people unguarded against their own delusions. The teaching servant is not merely a messenger but a stabilizer of truth, ensuring that revelation is not twisted into personal fantasy.

 A world formed under these conditions—no law, no incarnate God, no teaching servant—would not be a holy one. It would be filled with many gods, many spirits, many rituals, much fear, and much blood. Certainty would be scarce, and assurance of creation and salvation nonexistent. In fact, such a world once existed. The Greeks guessed at God through philosophy. The Romans feared their gods through sacrifice. Eastern religions cycled endlessly through rebirth without final redemption. Human sacrifice was common. Slavery was normalized. Women and children were expendable. Revelation itself was present, but completion was missing. Humanity had religious instinct but no final answer.

 The sobering conclusion is this: if God only spoke in scattered ways, without law, without Christ, and without a living teacher, then humanity would possess religion without assurance, morality without foundation, spirituality without creation and salvation, and hope without proof. The shock of Christianity to history is not merely that God spoke—it is that God showed up in flesh and stayed consistent. A God who only speaks from a distance creates religion. A God who walks among men creates redemption and new creation. That difference is not poetic language—it is the dividing line between uncertainty and eternal truth.