Posted by Camryn [camryn] on November 27, 1999 at 13:50:47 {nwG7wj0NI.CAoFoSdQ9.DroBvA4afs}:
In Reply to: ***No False Prophet/Alan posted by FRED HALL on November 27, 1999 at 13:13:49:
Fred: When I asked why you don't feel that anyone connected with the Society has ever been a false prophet, you answered..."Because they never claim to be one."
Is that what you meant to say? Surely you are saying that the reason you don't believe that Society is a false prophet is because they don't claim to be a false prophet!
I assume you meant to say that you don't believe they are a false prophet is because they don't even claim to be a prophet. But they have claimed to be Jehovah's prophet on earth many times.
If you will carefully read their chapter on "False Prophets" in their "Reasoning from the Scriptures" book you will notice that in the process of trying to convince the reader that they are not a *false* prophet they end up claiming to be Jehovah's only *true* prophet.
The actually end up 'proving' that they are a 'TRUE, UNINSPIRED PROPHET.' But there is no such a prophet as far as the Bible is concerned. One is either...
1) A *true* prophet because he *is* inspired, or
2) A *false* prophet because he *isn't* inspired.
And so it would seem that since the Society...
1) Claims to be a prophet, and
2) Claims that it is not inspired (p.136)...
Therefore, according to the above, it must be a false prophet.
Actually, their own definition on page 132 says that they are a false prophet! Look how they define false prophets...
"Definition: Organizations proclaiming messages that they attribute to a superhuman source but that do not originate with the true God and are not in harmony with his revealed will."
Haven't all the messages that the Society has ever proclaimed been attributed to a superhuman source?
For example: When the Awake! said for so many years that it was "the Creator's promise of a new world before the generation of 1914 passes away" - who did they attribute that promise to?
Since 1995 the GB has acknowledged that that message did not originate with God nor was it in hamony with his revealed will.
Therefore, according to their own definition of a false prophet, what are we to conclude? That the Society isn't a false prophet?