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To: stpio

I copied and pasted from YOUR post.

It’s there for all to see and I am not performing for you on demand. I do not answer TO you.

If you can’t even be sure abut what is being talked about in the prophecy, how in the name of common sense can you expect ANYONE to take these prophecies seriously? Nobody can when nobody is even sure what they’re about.


512 posted on 07/18/2012 4:54:03 PM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: metmom
If you can’t even be sure abut what is being talked about in the prophecy, how in the name of common sense can you expect ANYONE to take these prophecies seriously? Nobody can when nobody is even sure what they’re about.

Actually, we can take a pretty good guess.

which is a rather attractive option when you contrast:


516 posted on 07/18/2012 5:12:27 PM PDT by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: metmom
If you can’t even be sure abut what is being talked about in the prophecy, how in the name of common sense can you expect ANYONE to take these prophecies seriously? Nobody can when nobody is even sure what they’re about.

My impression of people like this is they have no real investment in studying the Scriptures and the history of the Christian faith. They lack the credentials that would require years and years of concentrated study and experiential knowledge to be able to teach the Word of God. They are much like people such as "Reverend" Al Sharpton, who claims he preached his first sermon at the age of FOUR and was licensed and ordained a minister at the age of nine or ten. These so-called "seers" or modern-day "prophets" claim a special gift to relay messages directly from God and they seldom bother with knowing the actual revealed Word of God first. They then go about drawing in the gullible and downtrodden seeking a personal experience with God.

Rather than filtering whatever this self-described prophet states is from God through the already-revealed Holy Scriptures, his followers are encouraged to also bypass Scripture and trust in whatever this seer "sees". It is far from the spiritual gift of prophesy described in I Corinthians 14:1 which was to be qualified to speak in a manner that would be edifying to the church under the power of the Holy Spirit. This is quite different than prophets who spoke directly from God such as in the Old Testament and through others such as Paul, John and Peter and who were used by God to reveal NEW truths. This gift was to be able to make the truths of God clear so that the church was edified or built up and strengthened.

I join you in being dubious of anyone who claims to be speaking "for" God. God speaks to us through His word and through the indwelling Holy Spirit who teaches us all truth. It is spiritually dangerous to take the word of someone over what God clearly states in Scripture and we KNOW that he will not contradict His word - EVER!

525 posted on 07/18/2012 6:31:34 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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