Where in the WORD does it say a PROPHET must be 100% accurate?

Question

It says if someone prophesies something and it doesn't take place,
he is a false prophet. But is also says, if someone prophesies
something and it DOES take place. But his conversation is wrong,
don't listen to him.
I have studied this stuff carefully. Symbology is the Universal language. And it is never wrong. It's the way it's interpreted that makes the mistakes.
The Apostle Paul said, "Prophecies will FAIL. Because we aren't
perfect. And we're like looking through a glass." Galatians I think.
GET YOUR STORY STRAIGHT!

Answer 1

ok thanks for the info.

i'll get my story straight next time.

Answer 2

Working backwards...

Your Galatians quote is incorrect. It is actually found in 1 Corinthians 13:8-12.

"Love never fails. Buit where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known."

As for judging a prophet as being trustworthy or not, that is found in the Old Testament. The reference you need is Deuteronomy 18: 14-22. Condensed down, there are three tests for any prophet: accuracy, authority, and methodolgy.

1. If a prophet makes a prediction, and it does not come true, he/she is lying. Don't listen to him or her. God has not sent them! Such predictions were NOT symbolic--they were actual physical things that were understood and visible. A hand withering, an alter splitting apart, fire falling from heaven, a crowd acting in a certain way, etc. Someone making such a prediction (referred to as a "sign from heaven") that failed, was busted as a false prophet.

2. If the "prophet" claimed to speak from any spirit or god other than the God of Isreal, he/she was busted as a false prophet!

3. Divination of any kind was forbidden. No reading of smoke, or crystal balls, or calling up spirits, or any other kind of witchcraft was allowed. Anyone practicing this, and calling themselves a "prophet", would be busted as a false prophet!

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

There were false prophets and those sent by Jehovah.
It wasn't easy to discern the difference. But if you had knowledge of the scriptures and a prophet told you to do something you know through studies to be wrong..you would not be wrong in ignoring that prophet.

Some people were told to stay somewhere and another man came and told them a prophet told him for them to leave....if they listened to this man they would lose their life..if thet obeyed the prophets first orders they lived....some were foolish and paid with their lives.

During the last supper..Jesus told his disciples to eat his flesh and drink his blood ...this made some leave Jesus as they took this to mean literally doing so because cannibalism and eating of blood was forbidden.

When the prophets told the isrealites to flee to the mountains...they did..but the city they left from took 4 years to be destroyed..this is where obedience comes in..

Once you find out what God's will is.....do it and don't look back.

The ones that went back into the city, and disregarded the prophets warnings, were destroyed with the city.

Answer 4

Deuteronomy 13.
Prophecy is an interesting topic. There are prophets, the gift of prophecy, the spirit of prophecy & the prophetic motive. All of these are very different.
Also, the ways prophets operated in the Old Testament versus the New Testament vary.
Good question.

Answer 5

Ok, I prophecy that a nuclear bomb will explode in the next ten years... I also prophecy that China will take over the world... I also prophecy that my computer will explode at random tomorrow...

So, if one of these comes true, am I a prophet?

If you really studied this carefully, one would think you could give a simple reference to a single Bible verse... not just "Galations I think"

Answer 6

The last of prophets in the order of time was Malachias.

Latin Vulgate
Douay-Rheims Bible

Second Epistle Of Saint Peter
Chapter 2

1 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there shall be among you lying teachers, who shall bring in sects of perdition, and deny the Lord who bought them: bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their riotousnesses, through whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their perdition slumbereth not. 4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but delivered them, drawn down by infernal ropes to the lower hell, unto torments, to be reserved unto judgment

11 Whereas angels who are greater in strength and power, bring not against themselves a railing judgment. 12 But these men, as irrational beasts, naturally tending to the snare and to destruction, blaspheming those things which they know not, shall perish in their corruption, 13 Receiving the reward of their injustice, counting for a pleasure the delights of a day: stains and spots, sporting themselves to excess, rioting in their feasts with you: 14 Having eyes full of adultery and of sin that ceaseth not: alluring unstable souls, having their heart exercised with covetousness, children of malediction

Answer 7

Wow, I would think if Jesus could talk to God he would make no mistakes in prophecies. Maybe Jesus is 80% accurate, or maybe 40%? Or maybe not at all?

Answer 8

You combined a couple of different passages at the end of your little shpeal that I don't understand what you were trying to prove.

Thus, if you can't quote scripture to back up your own argument....don't embarass yourself.

Answer 9

Thank you.

Based on your superior knowledge of scripture and your piercing intellect, I hereby renounce my faith.

Oh, I'm sorry, forget all that. I didn't have my story straight.

Answer 10

There's also the fact that prophets are people too.

Here's a fun story for you:

A prophet asked his wife to make him a sandwich. She said to him, "Are you asking me as the prophet, or as my husband? Because if you're asking me as the prophet, I'll make it for you, but if you're asking me as your husband -go make one yourself!"

I think she understood that sometimes prophets speak as people too, not just as prophets (and then they can be wrong), and we have to know the difference too.

thanks

Answer 11

A prophet of God is sent by God and God is speaking for Him.

Since God never lies, then a true prophet of God will never be wrong.