YouKnow wrote:
If his words didn’t come true than that meant that Jehovah didn’t speak them. That criteria can no longer hold true in the Christian era for the simple fact that God speaks to no one. And so any claimant of divine inspiration is automatically disqualified. The words of God as recorded in the Bible are the sole basis for our message and they cannot and will not failYouKnow, think carefully about this one: "If his words didn’t come true than that meant that Jehovah didn’t speak them". Yes, it is surely the case, how can we refute that one? But the next sentence tells about your knowledge of God's Word, which oubviously you din't really studied. Here again you have it all wrong. How can someone say that if someone is lying deliberately about God's Word he is still
considered a true prophet? Non-sense! I agree that in our days we can hardly tell if God is speaking to people or not. It is by a twist on word that the WT do not claim to get the message directly from God Himself, but they do claim to speak in God's name. That's pretty much the same thing just reformulated otherwise. LIARS are still not counted for true prophets of God in the New Testament. Otherwise, we would as well think that God is a liar too, which is impossible. It has been proven that the WT has told lies, and is still telling lies today (i.e. the ONG and UN affair). How can they be counted as true prophets of God, when God hates liars? Never!
In the Bible Peter denied that he even knew Jesus. That was of course a grievous sin that he deeply regretted. But, did that make him a false prophet?Of course not, but he never stated that he was speaking in the word of God when he denied to have ever known Jesus. And more, he faithfully repented himself in such doing. He have been apologized. But he never spoke by the word of God when he said that he din't know Jesus. He was only protecting his own life, and the life of the other apostles.