Jehovah's Witnesses never claimed to be Prophets

anonread

Claim: Jehovah's Witnesses never claimed to be prophets.

Answer: You don't get to choose what word describes your actions. A prophet is someone who predicts the future. The Jehovah's Witnesses can't say they are not prophets any more then someone who has written many computer programs can't say they are not programmers because they never claimed to be a computer programmer.

NeonMadman

In Biblical terms, a prophet is one who speaks for God, one into whose mouth God has put His messages. They certainly can't say that they never claimed that.

Finkelstein

They claim to be the only true prophets chosen solemnly by god under Jesus Christ and they have said that in their published literature,

when in reality and truthfully they are false commercialized Prophets/profits

A variation of Power and money seeking charlatans.

Scully

Then why bother following them?

Farkel

Sometimes and only sometimes the WT leaders do not claim to be prophets, but they demand they be TREATED like prophets ALL the time.

Farkel

Twitch

proph·et

1.a person who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
2.(in the Old Testament)

a person chosen to speak for God and to guide the people of Israel: Moses was the greatest of Old Testament prophets.

b.( often initial capital letter ) one of the Major or Minor Prophets.

c.one of a band of ecstatic visionaries claiming divine inspiration and, according to popular belief, possessing magical powers.

d.a person who practices divination.
3.one of a class of persons in the early church, next in order after the apostles, recognized as inspired to utter special revelations and predictions.
4.the Prophet, Muhammad, the founder of Islam.
5.a person regarded as, or claiming to be, an inspired teacher or leader

Door #1 looks good. But there's #5 too. I don't know Monty, which one should I pick?

anonread

Merriam Websters defins a prophet as 1: one who utters divinely inspired revelations: as a often capitalized : the writer of one of the prophetic books of the Bible b capitalized : one regarded by a group of followers as the final authoritative revealer of God's will <Muhammad, theProphet of Allah> 2 : one gifted with more than ordinary spiritual and moral insight; especially : an inspired poet 3 : one who foretells future events

wasblind

On page 133 In the Reasoning book the WTS claim to meet the qualifications of a " true" prophet

On page 136 The WTS claim not to be " inspired " Prophets because of the errors they made

Seems like a false prophet to me

kurtbethel

"So, does Jehovah have a prophet to help them, to warn them of dangers and to declare things to come? These questions can be answered in the affirmative. Who is this prophet?...This "prophet" was not one man, but was a body of men and women. It was the small group of footstep followers of Jesus Christ, known at that time as International Bible Students. Today they are known as Jehovah's Christian witnesses....Of course, it is easy to say that this group acts as a "prophet" of God. It is another thing to prove it," (Watchtower, Apr. 1, 1972, p. 197).

If someone tells you that Jehovah's Witnesses never claimed to be prophets, then they have demonstrated that they have not properly researched the religion and are therefore unqualified to teach you anything about it.

Jehovah's Witnesses never claimed to be Prophets

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