[Lee N. Field]

I would think his status as a FReeper protects him against posters "making it personal", in the same way that Catholic FReeper Patrick Madrid is personally protected when Madrid's articles are posted and discussed.

You can always cite Deuteronomy 13 & 20 in the general sense, and leave it to the lurker to decide for themselves...

As long as you don't take that last step ("All X are Y. FreeperX is a member of class X, therefore FreeperX is Y) you can get away with all kinds of things.

"Claiming to be a prophet, and speak the words of God, is an extremely serious thing. I've seen and heard a lot of this kind of stuff around. Without exception each has been an incoherent ramble, stringing phrases pulled from the Bible and from charismatic jargon in what can only be described as third order monkey typing. It's totally and completely different in character from the written word of God we have -- the Bible itself.

"Why should I believe this person is a prophet of God? " --me, earlier and still unanswered.

[Brookhaven]

Claiming to be a prophet, and speak the words of God, is an extremely serious thing.

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The same can be said for a (religious) teacher, pastor, etc... I can’t imagine the anger God has towards those that lead others astray.

“It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he would cause one of these little ones to stumble.” luke 17:2

Specificly Jesus is talking about children here, but certainly a more general message can be drawn. Leading anyone astray (adult or child) is a terrible thing.

[Alex Murphy]

"Why should I believe this person is a prophet of God? " --me, earlier and still unanswered.

Someone else answered a similar question back in May, and the answer was this: the local congregation's vote decides whether a prophecy is from God, even if the presumed prophet fails the two Deuteronomy tests.

[1000 silverlings]

Somehow I rather don’t think the Lord rhymes like Jesse Jackson in bad poetry so Jed, I think you are speaking for yourself here, not God, even though you seem harmless enough now, you might want to be careful playing with fire from Heaven

[The Comedian]

Without exception each has been an incoherent ramble, stringing phrases pulled from the Bible and from charismatic jargon in what can only be described as third order monkey typing.

If that wasn't such a long phrase, I'd steal it as my tagline.