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[Eldorado]

HuttonEtAl, on 25 April 2012 - 06:09 AM, said:

OMG duh... how did I miss this...there has been. His name was Muhammad...he was the founder of Islam.

Did you miss this too?.....
"I meant Official Prophet. Accepted by the main Jewish and/or Christian Churches as speaking on God's behalf."

lol

Thanks everyone!

[Flibbertigibbet]

If one came along, how many current Christians would believe him? Take the example of Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons and self-declared prophet. Or, as has already been said, Muhammad. There are countless others. Prophets come along claiming to reform religion, but all they end up doing is founding new ones.

[Paranoid Android]

Since you're asking about the Christian God, then I guess we should see what the Christian Bible says about it:

Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
~ Hebrews 1:1-2

In the past God spoke to us through his prophets, but now he speaks to us through Jesus.  There is no need for an "official prophet".  However, that does not mean that there aren't prophets.  But the message these prophets bring will be nothing different to the message Jesus brought to us already.  

~ PA

[and then]

Paranoid Android, on 25 April 2012 - 12:52 PM, said:

Since you're asking about the Christian God, then I guess we should see what the Christian Bible says about it:

Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
~ Hebrews 1:1-2

In the past God spoke to us through his prophets, but now he speaks to us through Jesus.  There is no need for an "official prophet".  However, that does not mean that there aren't prophets.  But the message these prophets bring will be nothing different to the message Jesus brought to us already.  

~ PA

+1

[Eldorado]

and then, on 25 April 2012 - 01:17 PM, said:

+1

+2  

I think I found my answer.

Thank you all!



p.s. Am trying to regain my Christian Faith... without going to Church and listening to same old same old.

Edited by Eldorado, 25 April 2012 - 01:34 PM.

[HavocWing]

Here is just some:

http://en.wikipedia....ssiah_claimants

[CommunitarianKevin]

Flibbertigibbet, on 25 April 2012 - 11:27 AM, said:

If one came along, how many current Christians would believe him? Take the example of Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons and self-declared prophet. Or, as has already been said, Muhammad. There are countless others. Prophets come along claiming to reform religion, but all they end up doing is founding new ones.

Another good one. I was just going to mention Joseph Smith.

[CommunitarianKevin]

Eldorado, on 25 April 2012 - 10:30 AM, said:

Did you miss this too?.....
"I meant Official Prophet. Accepted by the main Jewish and/or Christian Churches as speaking on God's behalf."

lol

Thanks everyone!

And under whose authority is this determined?

I mean seriously what Church is going to be like "yup this guy speaks for God?" Has this ever happened? Anytime something like this happens a new religion is formed as was the case with Christianity, Islam, and Mormonism. I mean as people have pointed out the Bible says Jesus is it...until Muhammad came...then he was it...The next one will come when he can convince enough people to drink the kool-aid and they will form their own Church. Maybe the Church of Moses and Jesus that Drink the Kool Aid.

Edited by HuttonEtAl, 25 April 2012 - 06:36 PM.

[Eldorado]

HuttonEtAl, on 25 April 2012 - 06:32 PM, said:

And under whose authority is this determined?

That's what kinda bothers me.

..and btw... Jesus is/was the Messiah, Son of God.  The Prophets were simple pilgrims like Abraham, Daniel and Malachi etc.

[CommunitarianKevin]

Eldorado, on 25 April 2012 - 07:03 PM, said:

That's what kinda bothers me.

..and btw... Jesus is/was the Messiah, Son of God.  The Prophets were simple pilgrims like Abraham, Daniel and Malachi etc.

That is mearly an opinion. Jews did not think he was the son of God. They did not even think he was a prophet or the Messiah. They thought he was a heretical Roman sympathizing rabbi that was perverting the teachings of the Torah (and he was.) Many people (that consider themselves Christian) question the divinity of Jesus. Muslims consider Jesus a great prophet but not divine and most certainly not the son of God. It is all a matter of opinion. So once again, who is the authority? It all comes down to ones personal belief.

[dougeaton]

Eldorado, on 18 April 2012 - 03:26 PM, said:

OK... I meant Official Prophet.  Accepted by the main Jewish and/or Christian Churches as speaking on God's behalf.  There's a whole raft in the Bible... then nothing, as far as I know.

Has God given up on us?

Prophets are usually killed first, admired later.  Martin Luther Kind, Morther Theresa could perhaps be called prophetic, then there is Dorthy Day.

doug

[braveone2u]

Eldorado, on 18 April 2012 - 03:26 PM, said:

Has God given up on us?

The Holy Spirit is always with us, for all of us. The Holy Spirit is always available, as in direct contact.

[heatherb35601]

i recently saw a man on TV named T.B Joshua a pastor at SCOAN in Lagos Nigeria that is a man of God and has also told of things that have came true.
You can check him out on You Tube

[heatherb35601]

God will never give up on us and he will hear you when you call if you are living in the way of him you will never be forgotten you are his child and he loves all his children.

[C235]

hetrodoxly, on 18 April 2012 - 04:52 PM, said:

Jesus son of god and the last prophet, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Mohammed hadn't read John 14:6

I have gone to the father without him!