(September 29, 2014 at 7:21 pm)Jenny A Wrote:(September 29, 2014 at 2:40 pm)Drich Wrote: Indeed. They are men like the rest. God gave them great revelations into his word, but those who follow them have changed and augumented to fill answers to questions they did not orginally answer. turning a good teachers work into the 'holy words of a prophet.'
Before we get too cozy here. I meant that they are not prophets AND their followers do not treat them as such. Lutherans have reached different conclusions about what the Bible means. So have other sects. The point being that the Bible is hardly an easily interpreted or even all that coherent a set of documents.
Indeed they are not prophets, (as the OT understanding of the word goes) and if you ask no one would ever admit to worship them as prophets. However if you take the literal defination of the word prophet and match it to the various doctrines and religious musts, one must believe and follow to be apart of a given denomination. You can identify what is actually happening in a given expression of their various Christian faiths.
