What is a Seer?

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Willie T

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That's not what I got from what I've read of him. Although I have seen that when any ideological group wants to attempt to claim him as their darling, it will be impossible for them because no sooner have they accepted him for what he said against the opposing ideology, he will most assuredly point out the fractures, inconsistencies and absurdities of their own.

So anyone who tries to place him in any certain ideological box will run into trouble, because when they ask him, are you thus and thus or do you believe in such and such, he will immediately ask them to define "thus" and "such."
Now, maybe he didn't say this (I dunno, for sure):
In a 2017 interview, Peterson was asked if he was a Christian; he responded, "I suppose the most straight-forward answer to that is yes". When asked if he believes in God, Peterson responded: "I think the proper response to that is No, but I'm afraid He might exist".
 

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A fairly important point you seem to have overlooked is that priests boast of the ability to declare "absolution" for that confession..... Psychologists (I worked for one for more than two decades) do not.

It was not that I overlooked absolution, nor was I weighing the merits of.........just pointing out, in general, that a Psychologist has been more of a Secular Priest who people have confessed their sins to.

Sometimes it is just nice to talk to someone?

What is the root of the problem?
 
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That's not what I got from what I've read of him. Although I have seen that when any ideological group wants to attempt to claim him as their darling, it will be impossible for them because no sooner have they accepted him for what he said against the opposing ideology, he will most assuredly point out the fractures, inconsistencies and absurdities of their own.

So anyone who tries to place him in any certain ideological box will run into trouble, because when they ask him, are you thus and thus or do you believe in such and such, he will immediately ask them to define "thus" and "such."
An honest man would stand up and explain what he believes, not try to dodge and dance around what someone else might or might not believe.
 

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Now, maybe he didn't say this (I dunno, for sure):
In a 2017 interview, Peterson was asked if he was a Christian; he responded, "I suppose the most straight-forward answer to that is yes". When asked if he believes in God, Peterson responded: "I think the proper response to that is No, but I'm afraid He might exist".

Did you watch the interview? He was wishy washy. He has stated in other places that he is a Christian.

 

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It was not that I overlooked absolution, nor was I weighing the merits of.........just pointing out, in general, that a Psychologist has been more of a Secular Priest who people have confessed their sins to.

Sometimes it is just nice to talk to someone?

What is the root of the problem?
No problem. I'm just trying to make sure I understand whence you get your information.
 

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An honest man would stand up and explain what he believes, not try to dodge and dance around what someone else might or might not believe.

Yes, well, I myself am almost hard pressed to answer someone if they ask me, are you a Christian? My most honest answer would have to be, it depends on what you mean by Christian. I mean, the Westborough Baptists call themselves Christians.
 

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Yes, well, I myself am almost hard pressed to answer someone if they ask me, are you a Christian? My most honest answer would have to be, it depends on what you mean by Christian. I mean, the Westborough Baptists call themselves Christians.
I know that isn't so. You are too honest to play his kind of game. Even right here you are stating that you are a Christian, specifically, and only, as you understand that to be, not as the joke that name has devolved into.
 

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I know that isn't so. You are too honest to play his kind of game. Even right here you are stating that you are a Christian, specifically, and only, as you understand that to be, not as the joke that name has devolved into.

I don't think the man plays a silly game after reading many pieces of what he has written. I think He just resists being hijacked by leftwing nuts, rightwing nuts, communists, socialists, feminists, maosists, and any other ists or -gogues.
 
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Dr. Jordan Peterson isn't a Joke.

People like Dr. Carl Jung were into The Occult. Dr. Jordan Peterson was threatened. People threatened him for using Dr. Carl Jung. Why?

Snakes takes. Ladders give. A snake may have been like a dragon. A dragon has a gold horde? Knowledge is greater than silver or gold? A snake may have been working to steal away knowledge and understanding for himself, and those he wished to share it with. Ladders give. A ladder may be like Jacob's Ladder helping people up to God.

How much do you know of The Principalities? Why are The Principalities not taught more? Given someone were to go to a Divinity school, how much do they talk about The Principalities? Not much at this time? Possibly, the reason why, is that on top, there have been occultist type people doing the wrong things who were false teachers. An understanding of the Principalities implies an understanding of Good and Evil, and understanding of deceit and lies, an understand of Darkness and The Light. Some people have rather lived in comfortable lies?

A man of God, with the Spirit of God, may be able to out a lot of wrong doers with understanding of Dr. Carl Jung.

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Question: Where did you get "Ladders Give and Snakes Take?"

Anyone receiving some cause and effect with The Spiritual may have been working on certain spiritual lines or laws. Was there a Occultist or Satanist doing something who received some cause and effect, even if it was from a demon? They were doing particular things. Not anythings. Particular things. How I came to see this was through God, watching music videos and media, paying attention to lyrics and looking at the artist's vision in their videos.

A good starting point for that may be:

Post: https://www.quora.com/q/jbgctdzlulcjyreb/Bible-Study-When-The-Man-Comes-Around

Satan - A liar and a thief. Has worked to steal away understanding and things of God.

Luciferian - Believed that God is the dark and man or something else was the light.

A lot of Christian people saw AC/DC as Satanic or Demonic back in the 1970's and 1980's. They weren't wrong. We can hear it in their music. Part of what they did, with others, was steal away understanding of what it means to be a man?

Video:

In the video, we have a man who lived life. He loved adventure. He loved one woman. He did a lot of great things.

In the 1970's and 1980's, manliness became associated with sex, drugs, and rock and roll? Understanding was stolen away.

A Luciferian song may have been "Sin City" AC/DC. By the title, we know that the song has some sort of spiritual relevance. They are singing about sin, a topic in the Bible. The song may have been listened to in two ways. Someone listening to the song perceiving a man who went into Vegas or something, and being in sin, doing the wrong things, that may have been how many people perceived it. The song may also be listened to from the perspective that Jonah or a Jesus like figure is going into Sin City. He is going to win. The Bible tells us so.

Ladders Given and Snakes Take was something I picked up, or God pointed out to me.

 

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Given The Bible, and we are looking to apply and wield The Bible through The Spirit of God to its fullest, what is a Seer?
A seer is a prophet, and a prophet is a seer.

Are there any seers today? Since the prophets and the apostles passed away, there are neither genuine seers nor genuine prophets today. However, there are plenty of false prophets if you wish to have your ears tickled.
 

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Question: Why do you believe that Dr. Peterson has danced around answering the question "Do You believe in God?"

I don't talk for him, but we can look at some elements of faith and belief.

Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus be cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit. (1 Corinthians 12:3)

What Jesus have some people believed in?

  • Post Modern Mush God? Article: Be Ye Angry and Sin Not.
  • Gnostic, more Freemason Jesus delving into the occult?
  • New Testament only Jesus?
  • Utilitarianism or other modernist ideology infused Christianity?
  • Is there a difference between Protestant and Catholic Jesus?
I serve The Lord God Almighty. God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob. Jesus is my Lord. Jesus born of a virgin; died and resurrected after three days.

Enduring Spiritual Theme: God is God you cannot control. Pagans made gods to control something. Some people have made false Christs.

A lot of people may have believed in God. Even Satan has known God has existed.

Faith is a knowledgeable dependence. It is a relationship of trust. Faith is like a marriage. A man is cleaved unto his wife. A man is cleaved unto God.

Bible Concordance To Cleave: Kings Bible Concordance - cleave

A man would like a wife. He goes to a matchmaker. He took a leap of faith. He is putting his faith and life into a system, and was willing to accept what the match maker brought him. This may have been similar to Issac sending his servant to find him a wife.

A man would like a wife. He goes to a matchmaker. He may have never seen her before. Both have taken a leap of Faith. They may not have known each other well at first. They will have the rest of their lives to get to know each other and grow in a relationship of trust.

When someone chooses God, it is kind of like a wedding. They chose to believe. They study their Bible, and seek God. They work to develop Godly character. They work to be aware of how and where to lean on God.
 
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Are there any seers today? Since the prophets and the apostles passed away, there are neither genuine seers nor genuine prophets today. However, there are plenty of false prophets if you wish to have your ears tickled.


A seer sees the Spiritual. Ezekiel in Ezekiel 1 was seeing into the principalities. In Ezekiel 8, God gave Ezekiel vision of what has happening in the secret and dark places.

When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble? When disaster comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it? 7Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets. (Amos 3:6-7)

Given you have believed there were no prophets or there was going to never be another prophet, that may have been a false belief started by people working to control God more similar to the pharisees.
 

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Question: Manonfire63, what denomination are you?

At this point, someone may be curious the theological and denominational background and grounding of The Author.

  • I received a calling fall 2013 around the age of 30. (Luke 3:23)

  • I was mentored by Kingdom Watchers. The author there has been right a lot.

  • To Kingdom Watchers, we apply an understanding of Thumos,and having cause and effect spiritual and supernatural experiences with God. Theologically, it does change somethings, or build on Kingdom Watchers.

  • I didn't hate The Catholics. This was important. God has well of Saints or Martyrs, and someone who hated The Catholics may have had stumbling blocks, and needed some false things to be true.

  • The Last Church I have attended regularly would be a Black Primitive Baptist Church in Tennessee in 2014. They are not responsible for this; however, while attending, I received a calling, I found Kingdom Watchers, and I was taught by The Holy Ghost.

  • Since February 2014, I have worked for God full time. Did you know what I was going to do today? I didn't know either other than serving God, and/or being a servant to one's sorrow.


This. I recieved a calling from God. I was mentored by Kingdom Watchers. I have worked to build the Kingdom of God.

After being homeless, and getting out of homelessness while working for God, and after about four years or so, I found someone on /r/theology asking about a Five Fold Ministry. I looked it up. I suppose that may be what some people may have tried to lump me into.

(This is a Jedi Mind Trick. He his waiting for the wrong person to try to reply.)
 

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Question:Man on Fire, given someone was working to make The Watchman Allegory work, what may they need?

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Applying Allegorical Interpretation of The Bible - Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb


God is Holy and Separate from Sin. God spoke and something was created. We have The Power of the Tongue. There is the WORD of God.

The following is something I built through the Spirit of God.

Jesus hits like an Atom Bomb

Run

Ragga Bomb

Centuries

The above is more complex than the last one.

"Applying Allegorical Interpretation of The Bible - Living Dead"

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Question: What is your view on Cessationalism?

Cessationalism has often had to do with jealousy and envy. It is a sin.

  • Why him and not me?
  • If I cannot have it, no one can have it?
  • Someone who loved Modernism with their soul may have needed many false things to be true, and was a Luciferian. The idea of Spiritual Gifts may threaten him?
Some Cessationalists have liked to use 1 Corinthians 13:8-11.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.(1 Corinthians 13:8-11.)

Instead of being caught up in jealousy or sin, someone should let go. Seek God. Be meek before God. 1 Corinthians 13 supposes The Power of the Tongue, and someone has been growing in Faith.

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Someone didn't arrive even there? They are going to be off and wrong a lot.
 

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An honest man would stand up and explain what he believes, not try to dodge and dance around what someone else might or might not believe.

I think his concern for people is genuine and that he wants to have no potential theological barriers between himself and others. Surely if he came out as a Christian it would alienate some people he is trying to reach, as right now all they know is this man has profound teachings that resonate within them. He doesn't care what Christians think of him, they are not who he is trying to reach. Neither does he care about any requirements others may place on him to reveal as much.

It is as though he is plowing the ground to break up the hard surface by calling people to question their suppositions and take responsibility for themselves.

Some of his insights are so inspired that I doubt a secular man could make them. As a blind man would fall into the same trappings as others in his profession. Nether would he recognize the spiritual and call it ideology in order to be more relatable.

I have nothing against the man.
 

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I think his concern for people is genuine and that he wants to have no potential theological barriers between himself and others. Surely if he came out as a Christian it would alienate some people he is trying to reach, as right now all they know is this man has profound teachings that resonate within them. He doesn't care what Christians think of him, they are not who he is trying to reach. Neither does he care about any requirements others may place on him to reveal as much.

It is as though he is plowing the ground to break up the hard surface by calling people to question their suppositions and take responsibility for themselves.

Some of his insights are so inspired that I doubt a secular man could make them. As a blind man would fall into the same trappings as others in his profession. Nether would he recognize the spiritual and call it ideology in order to be more relatable.

I have nothing against the man.
Well stated...thank you.
 

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What is a seer? This article answers the question scripturally.

A seer is a person who “sees.” In the Bible, a seer is another name for a prophet (see 1 Samuel 9:9). But, more specifically, a seer was a prophet who saw visions—pictures or scenes seen in the mind’s eye, in dreams, or even with one’s natural eye. God spoke to His people through prophets in different ways, and one way was through visions. Accompanying the ability to see visions, a seer was given insight into what God was saying by these visions.

There are a few different Hebrew words translated “seer.” Roeh (1 Samuel 9:11) and chozeh (2 Samuel 24:11) are the two most common. Second Chronicles 9:29 might differentiate between prophet and seer: “Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, from first to last, are they not written in the records of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?” The distinction is probably that Nathan was God’s spokesman in the world (whether or not he had visions), while Iddo was specifically associated with “visions.” Another prophet, Jeremiah, also operated as a seer (see Jeremiah 1:11–13). Notice that God doesn’t ask Jeremiah what he “feels” or “thinks,” but rather what he “sees.” After Jeremiah sees the vision, God gives him insight into what the vision meant (Jeremiah 1:14–18).

The term seer isn’t used in the New Testament, but there were still prophets who had visions. Paul had a vision of heaven (2 Corinthians 12:2), as did Stephen (Acts 7:55–56) and John (Revelation 1:12–16).

Seers in the Bible possessed a unique gift as God vividly communicated with and through them. Their faithfulness in writing down what they saw helped to complete the Word of God as we have it today.

Source: What was a seer in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org

To answer the OP's question from a personal standpoint, I have the gift of prophecy. Sometimes, God reveals what He wants me to speak through words and sometimes through a picture in my mind. When He gives me a picture, He also gives me an explanation of what the picture means so that I can relay the meaning to the person or group.

I think that I've shared this example before. Several years ago, I was attending a church that allowed prophetic words. The Holy Spirit gave me a picture of a harbor with ships in it. He prompted me to share it with the church and showed me the meaning. The message was that there were people in the church who would be leaving what felt like the safe harbor for uncharted waters, but that God had charted the waters and that the safe harbor is Jesus Christ. After I shared this, an elder confirmed that the message was for the pastor and his wife.
 

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My understanding of Dr. Peterson has been a little different. One of the things he talks about that I have liked has been the idea of "Ideological Possession."

Given I were to talk to an atheist about God online, he may have been an egotist, a blind man, and he used the exact same arguments that any other atheist I have found online may have used. He probably didn't read the Bible, but he may have said he did, in a lie, to look knowledgeable. He would like to believe that he was a "Free Thinker" but he was ideologically possessed and had mental issues.

Dr. Peterson has been able to clear people of ideological possession. That may be a good place for a Christian Evangelist to be.


I think some Christians don't like him because he is more advanced than they are....and they don't understand why. Sign of the times.
Mr. Peterson tackles all the hard stuff of being a Christian in a real sincerity without all the self-serving hype about how righteous he is for it. He is anti-religious from the point of view of dogmatic ideologies that breed totalitarian systems that impede the truth.
 
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