Posted by Alan [ABK] on November 27, 1999 at 14:37:34 {nwG7wj0NI.lwbpQQdc0ocg1OR9dBW2}:
In Reply to: No False Prophet/Alan posted by CAmryn on November 27, 1999 at 07:46:02:
:Alan: Apparently you don't think anyone who has ever made up the the leadership of the Watchtower Society has been a false prophet. Would you explain why?
Has any one of the Watchtower leadership been a prophet? First ask me if I care about the WT leadership. Other than personally, I don't.
Has any of them been a prophet?
From m-w.com
Main Entry: proph·et
Pronunciation: 'prä-f&t
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English prophete, from Old French, from Latin propheta, from Greek prophEtEs, from pro for + phanai to speak -- more at FOR, BAN
Date: 12th century
1 : one who utters divinely inspired revelations; specifically often capitalized : the writer of one of the prophetic books of the Old Testament
2 : one gifted with more than ordinary spiritual and moral insight; especially : an inspired poet
3 : one who foretells future events : PREDICTOR
4 : an effective or leading spokesman for a cause, doctrine, or group
5 Christian Science a : a spiritual seer b : disappearance of material sense before the conscious facts of spiritual Truth
- proph·et·hood /-"hud/ noun
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1. No, they are not divinely inspired. They only retell what the inspired word of God says.
2. They are not gifted and they are not more than ordinary with moral and spiritual insight.
3. They don't fortell future events. (The Bible is what they use).
4. They would be, but irrelevant to this case.
5. No.
They are not a prophet.
So they can not be a false prophet.