Biblically a prophet is someone who tells God's message to others.
So if you pick up the Bible and read it out loud to someone, you are a prophet.
Are you an inspired prophet? NO.
But you are fulfilling the basic meaning of the word prophet.
The last inspired prophet was the apostle John.
In ancient Israel a key to understanding a false 'inspired' prophey was two fold.
1) What he said, did it come true?
2) What he was saying was it leading people away from Jehovah and his principles.
Example: In the days of Jeremiah the false prophets were ineffect stating that Jehovah was not mad at them, that they were NOT doing anything wrong, and that Jehovah was not going to destroy Jerusalem.
Now let's fast forward to today:
We have false doctrine and telling people what is bad is good, and what is good is bad.
(Women ministers and gay ministers; Sex before marriage is okay. Organizations teaching these things are teaching falsehood.)
(Teaching pagan philosophy and not bible teaching is also wrong:
Historian Will Durant observed: “Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it. . . . From Egypt came the ideas of a divine trinity.” And in the book Egyptian Religion, Siegfried Morenz notes: “The trinity was a major preoccupation of Egyptian theologians . . . Three gods are combined and treated as a single being, addressed in the singular. In this way the spiritual force of Egyptian religion shows a direct link with Christian theology.”
Thus, in Alexandria, Egypt, churchmen of the late third and early fourth centuries, such as Athanasius, reflected this influence as they formulated ideas that led to the Trinity. Their own influence spread, so that Morenz considers “Alexandrian theology as the intermediary between the Egyptian religious heritage and Christianity.”
In the preface to Edward Gibbon’s History of Christianity, we read: “If Paganism was conquered by Christianity, it is equally true that Christianity was corrupted by Paganism. The pure Deism of the first Christians . . . was changed, by the Church of Rome, into the incomprehensible dogma of the trinity. Many of the pagan tenets, invented by the Egyptians and idealized by Plato, were retained as being worthy of belief.”
A Dictionary of Religious Knowledge notes that many say that the Trinity “is a corruption borrowed from the heathen religions, and ingrafted on the Christian faith.” And The Paganism in Our Christianity declares: “The origin of the [Trinity] is entirely pagan.”
That is why, in the Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, James Hastings wrote: “In Indian religion, e.g., we meet with the trinitarian group of Brahmā, Siva, and Viṣṇu; and in Egyptian religion with the trinitarian group of Osiris, Isis, and Horus . . . Nor is it only in historical religions that we find God viewed as a Trinity. One recalls in particular the Neo-Platonic view of the Supreme or Ultimate Reality,” which is “triadically represented.” )
But what about the one who finds out what he understood was wrong?
The apostles thought Jesus was setting up his kingdom, right after his death.
Christian Jews thought you still had to follow the Law and be circumised.
These faithful men accepted the change and went on serving God acceptably.
The apostle Peter had to be corrected because he was teaching partiality, yet he didn't stop being an apostle.
Meek and humble are the qualities God looks for in people.
Meek means teachable, humble means willing to put God and others ahead of self.
Are we willing to accept what the inspired Word of God says, or will we stick to the error and continue to preach it.
Give me an organization that admits it's mistakes over one that clings to tradition.
Give me an organization that bases all it's teachings on the bible, and not of pagan philosophy.
A humble and meek person or organization will accept the disciple God gives and correct their teachings.
This doesn't make them false, just human.
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