A true prophet is not just a one time prophet.
a true prophet gives his life to service, as did the twelve apostles, Paul, and Joseph smith. Show me a prophet who fits your field of vision. Christ was a wine bibber and a glutton to those of short vision.
2007-12-29 09:16:28 · 9 answers · asked by scotty_84116 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Do prophets get criticized and persecuted? Of course they do. All throughout the Bible the prophets of old here criticized. Look at Noah. They laughed him to scorn. Christ taught that his believers would be persecuted for his names sake.
If God's prophets were popular and sought after by the masses, something would be wrong and it would appear that such would be preaching the precepts of man and not God.
That fact that Joseph Smith was persecuted, falsely accused and arrested for practicing religion in the land of religious freedom, only serves to support the idea that he was indeed a prophet of God.
2007-12-29 09:32:20 · answer #1 · answered by Kerry 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
What Kerry said!!!
Don't you just love the privilege of worshiping as you please, without listening to everyone else's mouth, about what you believe???
Welcome to America, land of the free, with freedom of worship!
Or is it that everyone else BUT, the LDS, can worship as they please?
Constitution, people! A lot of good people have died so that the LDS can follow the religion of their choice!
Mob violence, perpetrated by ''' good christians'' are the ones that dragged Joseph Smith from Carthage Jail, AFTER killing his brother Hyrum
So does anyone else think that it was a miscarriage of justice, that NOT one person was ever tried for their murders?
Freedom of religion?? Evidently, only for SOME people!!!!
2007-12-29 17:44:21 · answer #2 · answered by short fuse 2 · 7⤊ 0⤋
A prophet is someone who helps to open the hearts and minds of people, sometimes his teachings will be radical, it is a changing of the minds.
2007-12-29 19:01:42 · answer #3 · answered by newwellness 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I just LOVE how some of these answers demonstrate a complete lack of knowlege of who Joseph was. Interestante.
2007-12-29 17:25:32 · answer #4 · answered by Fotomama 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I believe there are no prophets. Only wisemen. And you would be wise to listen to their wisdom, not their prophecies, because that's all the good that can be had from them.
2007-12-29 17:21:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad
2007-12-29 17:20:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋
Joseph Smith was a false prophet. The Bible even warned against people like him, and still some fall away.
2007-12-29 17:22:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 7⤋
A true prophet will not be a womanizer, won't be run out of town on a rail, won't die as a law breaker. How about Ellen White? She consistently pointed people to scripture, and praised the Savior.
2007-12-29 17:21:43 · answer #8 · answered by hasse_john 7 · 2⤊ 7⤋
Haha. Josep Smith. You mean the convicted fraud and philanderer?
Next you'll be tellin' me that George Bush is an angel...
Please don't tell me you think George Bush is an angel.
2007-12-29 17:21:31 · answer #9 · answered by mam2121 4 · 3⤊ 7⤋