Fenn would also frequently ask his angel and Jesus to couch their messages and teachings to him in terms of “chapter and verse” of the Bible. Fenn apparently thought this was “right and proper” but never asked either his angel or Jesus about it. By confining them to “chapter and verse” it seems Fenn was limiting the range of divine response they could actually deliver and remain within the rules of engagement. What can Creator tell us about imposing such a limit on divine beings?

You are seeing correctly that there are pitfalls in being too doctrinaire and assuming that one's knowledge is correct and true from descriptions, even in the Scriptures, of how to conduct oneself spiritually to good effect. It is an unfortunate truth that even the Scriptures contain corrupt thinking and distortions, and many important divine teachings have been removed through the ages. This is no different than the censorship of today, it is still widespread where those in authority expunge testimony, destroy records, lock up the whistleblowers and truthtellers, or they may well end up dead, with much of their knowledge unreported, which is the point of their elimination, to silence them. Given the state of widespread ignorance and lack of sophistication in ancient times, the universal presence of authoritarian regimes quick to kill citizens for having the "wrong thoughts," the very idea is truly laughable that all divine revelations have been uniformly preserved with accuracy and thoroughness from ancient times on to the present day, and defies common sense and reason, but this is what the authorities want you to believe. They want you to accept a partial set of teachings as the be-all and end-all, knowing it is impoverished and largely ineffectual because it is easy to take a half measure, implement it poorly, and end up with even less in the way of an outcome. It is hard to go from a halfway starting point to the whole, and that has held humanity back for thousands of years now. So this was narrow thinking on the part of Fenn who saw the Scriptures as an absolute divine truth, the words of God, and therefore sacrosanct, and devoted himself slavishly to a word-for-word adherence, and this was indeed a narrowing of perspective that prevented new divine wisdom to be imparted. Here again, the important lesson is you are in charge of your world and not us. We will answer your call, we will support you, and assist in many ways if you ask, but you must know what you are about and must work mightily on your end to better understand your circumstances, what has gone wrong, what is missing, what is needed, and, ideally, even how we might go about supplying the missing pieces. In other words, you must learn to become a teacher and mentor for yourself and others through hard-won divine wisdom. You must pay attention, you must focus, and you must think creatively to explore the possibilities to fill in the many gaps in knowledge left by the incomplete history of humanity. Putting constraints on what the divine can tell you is not the way to go about this, it is a prescription for maintaining a mediocre level of understanding, and a primitive perspective at best, when it is time for the opposite to happen, it is time to break out, break the mold, look in new directions with opened eyes and heart, to expect the unexpected, and that will bring, many, many rewards and a broadened perspective of the divine and humanity as well.