Matthew 10:16 I am sending you out like sheep among wolves.Therefore be shrewed as snakes and as innocent as doves.
__________________ John 14:16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counsellor to be with you for ever 17 The Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
Have we forgotten Jim Jones & David Koresh? .....etc.
Anyone have some advice for the followers of the Jim Joneses and David Koreshes yet to come? How could they know if their leader really is a prophet? Careful, though. Your advice has to be precisely crafted so that it will expose only the frauds but allow the real prophets to keep up the good work.
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
It's strange that you look on the old testament prophets as if there was absolute certainty by everyone in their time that they spoke from God... There has never been and shall never be an absolute certainty in determining if a man speaks on behalf of God. So whatever was enough evidence for them that a man spoke on behalf of God should be acceptable to you that a man speaks on behalf of God. If I'm not mistaken a prophet of old had to do two things, his prophecies had to come to pass and he could not say anything contrary to their scriptures. So since you believe it is possible for God to give a command through a prophet for people to commit genocide then I ask if you would take part in genocide if all that prophets other prophecies had came to pass and he never spoke anything contrary to scripture. Personally I wouldn't care how many prophecies he had given and how many miracles he had done, I would not take part in such a thing. Would you?
It's strange that you look on the old testament prophets as if there was absolute certainty by everyone in their time that they spoke from God... There has never been and shall never be an absolute certainty in determining if a man speaks on behalf of God. So whatever was enough evidence for them that a man spoke on behalf of God should be acceptable to you that a man speaks on behalf of God. If I'm not mistaken a prophet of old had to do two things, his prophecies had to come to pass and he could not say anything contrary to their scriptures. So since you believe it is possible for God to give a command through a prophet for people to commit genocide then I ask if you would take part in genocide if all that prophets other prophecies had came to pass and he never spoke anything contrary to scripture. Personally I wouldn't care how many prophecies he had given and how many miracles he had done, I would not take part in such a thing. Would you?
It's strange that you look on the old testament prophets as if there was absolute certainty by everyone in their time that they spoke from God... There has never been and shall never be an absolute certainty in determining if a man speaks on behalf of God. So whatever was enough evidence for them that a man spoke on behalf of God should be acceptable to you that a man speaks on behalf of God. If I'm not mistaken a prophet of old had to do two things, his prophecies had to come to pass and he could not say anything contrary to their scriptures. So since you believe it is possible for God to give a command through a prophet for people to commit genocide then I ask if you would take part in genocide if all that prophets other prophecies had came to pass and he never spoke anything contrary to scripture. Personally I wouldn't care how many prophecies he had given and how many miracles he had done, I would not take part in such a thing. Would you?
Nope, because I believe it would be contrary to Jesus' teachings and the principle of His Spiritual kingdom.........
and if we killed everyone who would be our servants.........
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Psa 119:165 (KJV) 165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
"Do not believe everthing you read on the internet" - Abe Lincoln
Nope, because I believe it would be contrary to Jesus' teachings and the principle of His Spiritual kingdom.........
and if we killed everyone who would be our servants.........
Since it would be contrary to Jesus' teachings then God would never command it. So we have God changing from the Old Testament to the New Testament. In the Old Testament God would command such a thing for the greater good, in the New Testament God would not command such a thing ever. Did God's morals change because of what Jesus taught?
John 14:16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counsellor to be with you for ever 17 The Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
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