re prophetic warning to new york city evensont spot colorado edu evenson thomas randall writes yes i suppose it is true that people make mistakes it is interesting to note that in those long ago ot days if you weren t correct in your prophecies people got very mad and you were no longer believed even put to death this is one of the differences between ot prophecy and nt prophecy in the nt it is expected that when believers gather people will prophesy the prophecy must be judged cor there is nothing about killing someone who makes a mistake to say that we make mistakes is true to say that we make mistakes while filled with the spirit is not true were that true the entire bible having been written by men inspired by god would be subject also to those errors for what is prophecy but like those revelations given in scripture scripture is scripture there is no gift of scripture and i don t know about you but i know that i have made mistakes while filled with the spirit if you don t give grace to allow people to make mistakes they will never grow in the use of the spiritual gifts when we minister in my small group i encourage people to speak out any impressions or images they think might be from the lord only by trying will they know whether they were right or wrong and in either case they ll have a better handle on it the next time didn t you fall when you were learning to ride a bicycle but you kept on trying and you learned both from your failures and your successes spiritual gifts are no different you get better with experience which brings me around to asking an open question is the bible a closed book of scripture is it okay for us to go around saying god told me this and jesus told me that wouldn t that imply that god is still pouring out new revelation to us i know that some people will feel that is okay and some will not the concept of a closed canon would certainly cast a shadow on contemporary prophets on the other hand an open canon seems to be indicated sometimes the canon of scripture is complete does this mean that god no longer speaks i have heard his voice not audibly though some have but clearly nonetheless is what i heard equivalent to scripture no i have never heard contemporary prophets claim that what they receive from the lord is on the same level as scripture on the contrary those who are mature obey the scriptures by submitting their prophecies to fellow believers for judgement and the most reliable yardstick for judging prophecies is certainly the scriptures themselves the canon is closed but god is not silent also interesting to note is that some so called prophecies are nothing new but rather an inspired translation of scripture is it right to call that prophecy misleading wouldn t that be more having to do with knowledge i know the gift of knowledge may not be as exciting to talk about but shouldn t we call a horse a horse does it matter what it is called the question is not how to label it but how to receive it words of knowledge incidentally are similar to prophecy and sometimes the two overlap but generally it is supernatural knowledge of some fact that could not be known otherwise jon reid he is no fool who gives what he cannot keep reid cs uiuc edu to gain what he cannot lose jim elliot
