What are oracles spoken of in the New Testamen?

An oracle is a spoken word originating from a source other than human will. The apostle Peter wrote: "First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, because no prophecy ever came by the impulse of man, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God." (2 Peter 1:20, 21)

The distinction between human will and divine will is explicitly described through the NT, including the important role of human will in divine transmission. " Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said. If a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first be silent. For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged; and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets. For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints.' (1 Corinthians 14:29-33)

Oracles are spoken words originating from divine sources while remaining under the control of the speaker. This control does not include altering or filtering the words, but in orchestrating when the words are spoken through personal consent. It is an absurd notion that oracles were always prophetic words only meant for preservation within the body of scripture. The apostle Paul writes to Timothy that it is only by the prophecies spoken over him that he could fight the good fight of faith and lay hold of eternal life. "This charge I commit to you, Timothy, my son, in accordance with the prophetic utterances which pointed to you, that inspired by them you may wage the good warfare." (1 Timothy 1:18). Scriptural prophecy has been established and maintained for us so that personal prophecy may be recognized as valid and in force for each of us individually. Eliminating it, disarms the spiritual soldier and depersonalizes the fight. Oracles are not meant to add to scripture, but to powerfully and personally confirm scripture, applying the principles of the utterances to each of us individually. It was not until the events of Pentecost and the secondary outpouring upon the Gentiles that this experience was also granted to the Gentiles. The spirit of God was originally only available to the Jews. Eliminating a personal connection with God's power would be the first priority of the enemies of God in any era, leaving scripture obscure to the reader or hearer and not practically applicable, since only the wisdom and will of men would be available to assist in this process. We must ask ourselves: If it is our responsibility to read, understand and apply the scriptures using only worldly wisdom and human will, how can the God who gave us the scriptures express his impartiality to the illiterate, unreasoning and extremely weak? The answer is in personal oracles deliverable through any human being and especially powerfully, through those whose worldly education or intellect is not capable of standing in the way of a full expression. The degree of weakness then directly correlates to stronger expression and more remarkable exhibition, since it becomes more clear that this profound utterance could not possibly be originating with the speaker or be a result of their own intellectual cunning. This is how impartiality and justice is preserved, along with a periodic renewal of wider faith in God's existence. The most powerful exhibitions include those speaking oracles who were not previously even capable of speaking at all. It is through these weakest ones, (as Christ explains), we see the fulness of Christ himself. "Whatever you do unto the least of these my brothers, you do unto me..." (Matthew 25:40). In the NT era, oracles are available to Jews and Gentiles equally. They are accompanied by the exhibitions of power activated by God's preservation of his own impartiality. Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 2:3-7: "And I was with you in weakness and in much fear and trembling; and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glorification."

There are many masquerading spirits, but God's spirit can always be recognized by the preservation of his impartiality and his simple focus upon the weak and humble. The belief that God no longer delivers oracles preserves the popular delusional worldview that God does not exist and cannot act through nature or mankind to reveal himself. This reliable observation among the travelers of the broad road to perdition does not make it true, though the reality is true enough to those who have chosen to be deceived and live in constant fear, driven by distracting compulsions to keep them spiritually disarmed and futilely engaged in various forms of partiality. It is this partiality that creates and maintains the cycles of seemingly inescapable personal strife or collective war currently experienced by the overwhelming majority of humanity.

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What Are Oracles

I find it humorous that christians believe in oracles for their own religion but revile the oracles of other religions. If oracles were real the lottery and much else would more than matters of chance.

It means utterances (Gr. logion).