Epistemology and Prophetic Status

[topher694]

You are mistaken here as well as in your posts above. No further comment necessary.

If you want to learn more about why you are mistaken, try a book, such as Themes and Transformations in Old Testament Prophecy.

No I'm not and I have far more experience and books to back me up than you or Samuel Meier do

 

[topher694]

You are mistaken here as well as in your posts above. No further comment necessary.

If you want to learn more about why you are mistaken, try a book, such as Themes and Transformations in Old Testament Prophecy.

Ok funny guy. What are your qualifications? Have you ever prophesied?

 

[jamiec]

I admit that some of what we find in the Old Testament seems to reflect the dynamics you're referring to. But even if this is the case, am I correct in understanding you to be saying that if I am a true prophet of God, then when God tells me to tell other people a message I still won't know that I'm truly a prophet?

Do we want to say, then, that if I'm a prophet I won't be certain I'm being sent by God even though I think I've heard from Him?

ISTM that, if I were a prophet, I would "just know". I think that some kinds of certainty cannot be communicated to another human being. A husband cannot communicate his love for his wife to another human being, his wife excepted (perhaps). The effects of what cannot be fully communicated, however, can be communicated - though whether they are recognised for what they are, is another matter.

I think there is a sort of analogy between prophets and their followers, &, authors and their fandoms.