(September 24, 2020 at 6:32 am)Brian37 Wrote:(September 24, 2020 at 6:18 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Really, who is supposed to be the last prophet of Christianity or is this vocation still opened?
Of course, Mormons will say it was Joseph Smith who is last, but what about non-Mormons?
It seems to me that most Christians consider Jesus to be the last prophet, but then again there was Paul in the Bible who talked to God in heaven and also got some new commands from God – sometimes even different than Jesus’s. And then there is so-called “John” who wrote the “Apocalypse”.
I hate that word being attached to one religion. It is merely a bullshit superstitious word, to claim to "foresee" or "predict" the future.
Other words used throughout humanity worldwide have been words like "Oracle" "soothsayer" " psychic".
Even the mythology of Buddha had his mother "Queen Maya" being told by the divine world, BEFORE HAND, that she would give birth to a boy who would bring wisdom to the world.
There is no such thing as a "prophet". There are only human beings who want a super hero and work to retrofit a narrative to fit their desires after the fact.
It depends upon how one understands the meaning of "prophet". My understanding of the OT prophets is they were not so much predicting the future as warning that if you go down this path the consequences will be dire.
