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Anonymous asked in Society & CultureReligion & Spirituality · 8 years ago

The prophets of Christianity were telling lies and half-truths ?

I presume that some of the prophetic info said by the prophets and what is written of them,is determined by God(as in God is "forcing the hand"[and minds] of prophets and scribes etc. to actually give us accurate info from time to time.However,there were,and are times even today,when God allows the prophets and their writers of the prophecies, to tell lie and half-truths.What percentage is fact,fiction,half-truth and "faction" is hard to know.Bible quote from the prophet Jeremiah of the Old Testament :Jeremiah Chapter 8,verse 8.(Please see all these bible versions,New King James Version,NIV,Good News Bible,Youngs Literal Translation)"How can you say that you are wise and that you know my laws? Look, the laws have been changed by dishonest scribes."

There are also some concepts of this within Islam,please see Wikipedia entry called "Tahrif" and also "Criticism of Judaism" -Wikipedia entry,Islamic Criticism section.QUOTE from that entry here. Here in this quote there are criticisms of the prophet Ezra :"The character of Ezra, who was presumed to be the figure mentioned by the Qur'an (albeit with no corroborative evidence to suggest Ezra & Uzair to be the same person) became important in the works of the later Andalusian Muslim scholar Ibn Hazm who explicitly accused Ezra of being a liar and a heretic who falsified and added interpolations into the Biblical text. In his polemic against Judaism, Ibn Hazm provided a polemical list of what he considered "chronological and geographical inaccuracies and contradictions; theological impossibilities (anthropomorphic expressions, stories of fornication and whoredom, and the attributing of sins to prophets), as well as lack of reliable transmission (tawatur) of the text"'

So continuing, many Old Testament prophets were guilty of tellings lies and half-truths.But I also think the people who wrote the Gospels of the New Testament were guilty of this too. The New Testament writers themselves were guilty of "Tahrif" ,as well as many Catholic Popes, early Church Fathers ,and prophets of the Virgin Mary, like Sister Lucia of "Our Lady of Fatima" .I also think that Prophet Muhhamed himself (peace be upon him)was guilty of "Tahrif" .According to the Hadiths( please double check as I may have my facts wrong) ,Muhhamed was visited by the angel Gabriel or some other angelic creature.Some Christian writers and priests think this may have been a demon.It is stated that Muhhamed(peace be upon him) was choked by this angelic creature.Do God's angels choke and strangle their prophets- no.This does sound like something a demon would do though,and has been documented.There are other details I fail to remember.

However,God through Jesus has told me that the prophet Muhhamed himself (peace be upon him) was a true prophet, ordained for that task by Almighty God.But he did not do what God told him to do half the time (in relation to this question).On this note,I also add ,it is also true that many Catholic Christian prophets themselves, of Muhhameds era were also guilty of not doing what God told them to do half the time too.This is why God allowed Islam to become almost a competition of soughts, with Christianity.ON A SIDE NOTE/UNRELATED ISSUE.

Now the "Consecration of Russia" can be understood.(On a side note, using the Devils power-Witchcraft,it's possible to put negative love spells-like and additction,on people too e.g..marriage partners marrying as a result of a Satanic curse).Finally, people seem to have forgotten the power of the Devil and demons(Witchcraft) in the Modern world.The Devil has 50% of God's power,and God Almighty follows rules like in a sports match, with a referee included.There are rules to the sports game that must be obeyed,we are all players on either God's team or the Devils team.Right now it might be 7 to the Devil ,0 to God. so 7-0 .People can even rig God's game,take bribes,"fix matches" and score "own goals" too.Think of the "Temptation of Christ" in the desert,gospel of Matthew.

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  • MOMMAH
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    LUKE 18:7

  • 8 years ago

    Catholicism considers itself to be the fulfillment of Judaism. Judaism expected a Messiah. He came, and fulfilled the Old Covenant, extending it to all the world through the Church.

    So even though the Catholic Church has a 2000 year history going back to the time of Christ, it really has more like a 4000 or more year history going back through the Prophets, to Abraham, Melchisedek, Noah, Abel, all the way back to Adam and Eve. It is a continuity. Catholicism accepts the books of the old testament plus the books of the new testament.

    Islam accepts only the Quran, and the one prophet Muhammed. It says it accepts the old testament prophets, and Jesus as a prophet, but in fact it accepts only those parts of the old testament (and new testament) which support the teachings of Islam, which is darn little. Everything else is considered corrupted.

    So in essence we have a stand-alone religion dependent on one man and one book whose reliability cannot be established.

    This is pretty much the same as what Mormonism claims. One man who is considered to be the last prophet—Joseph Smith--and one book, the book of Mormon.

    According to Luke, John The Baptist was the last prophet, so Christians don't believe Muhammad was a prophet.

    John is seen as the last prophet of ancient Israel, while Jesus is the Messiah who ushers in the new age of the Kingdom of God.

  • 5 years ago

    There is not any such factor as " Catholic Christian prophets" none of the Prophets in the bible have been Catholic. Catholicism got here into being hundreds and hundreds of years after the dying of the Apostles, at which period ALL prophecy involving God's phrase used to be already recorded.

  • 8 years ago

    God's holy prophets of Christianity all told the truth 100%.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Jesus said that you haters of God would kill people and then say that God loves you @!!!!

    John 16:2

    in fact, a time is coming when those who kill you will think he is offering a service to God.

  • Esther
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Good grief; like I'm going to read this.

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