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but I've got better things to do with my time than to try to convince you that I'm "worthy" to write this book.

Perhaps, but if you are not worthy, then you are giving people false information, and so you are a false prophet. I personally would not want my theological information to come from someone who dabbles in the occult, for that is what tales of Merlin and dragons, and Dungeons and Dragons is. But then, that is me.

Perhaps, but if you are not worthy, then you are giving people false information, and so you are a false prophet.

And what if all these people are wrong, will you call them false prophets?:

D.C. Allison, Jr. The End of the Ages has Come (Philadelphia; Fortress, 1985) GR Beasley-Murray, Jesus and the Kingdom of God(Grand Rapids; Eerdmans, 1986); H. Conzelmann, The Theology of St. Luke (London: Faberand Faber 1960); C. H. Dodd, The Apostolic Preaching and its Developments New York: Willett, Clark, 1937) E.E.Ellis, Eschatology in Luke FBBS 30; Philadelphia, Fortress, 1972); J Jeremias, The Parables of Jesus (2nd rev. ed.; New York: Charles Scibner's Sons, 1972) A.J. Mattill, Jr., Luke and the last Things (Dillsboro: Western North Carolina, 1979); N. Perrin, Jesus and the Language of the Kingdom (Philadelphia, Fortress, 1976); W. Willis, ed., The Kingdom of God in 20th Century Interpretation (Peabody, MA; Hendrickson, 1987

Holy Hypocrites, Batman.

Oi vey. You have been invited to challenge anything I've written on the basis of Scripture. It's interesting and telling that you have yet to come even close to doing so.

First of all, since I make no claims to be a prophet, and because nowhere in my book will you find me saying, "Thus sayeth the Lord . . ." and giving independant prophecy, it is impossible for me to be rated as a false prophet. Nor do I teach people the worship of anyone but YHVH, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and Him only through the propitiation offered in His Son Yeshua the Messiah, so I don't count as a false prophet or even a false teacher on that score.

If you can't tell the difference between a commentator who may be wrong in one or more areas and who fully admits that up front in the very introduction to his work (and I have yet to find one who was perfect beyond the Lord Himself) and a false prophet then you are too spiritually and Biblically immature to have a serious theological conversation with. If you do know the difference, and chose to use that phrase anyway, then you are a mudslinger and a slanderer.

So tell us, which are you?