Book Review: Twelve Rules for Life
So how come not everyone can be a prophet? The Bible tells us why people who wouldn’t listen to the Pharisees listened to Jesus: “He spoke as one who had confidence”. You become a prophet by saying things that you would have to either be a prophet or the most pompous windbag in the Universe to say, then looking a little too wild-eyed for anyone to be comfortable calling you the most pompous windbag in the universe. You say the old cliches with such power and gravity that it wouldn’t even make sense for someone who wasn’t a prophet to say them that way.<p>“He, uh, told us that we should do good, and not do evil, and now he’s looking at us like we should fall to our knees.”<p>“Weird. Must be a prophet. Better kneel.”