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Kaitlyn takes Skye to school about prophets. This episode is also available to watch on Youtube, exclusive for Patreon supporters

Kaitlyn takes Skye to school about prophets. This episode is also available to watch on Youtube, exclusive for Patreon supporters - https://youtu.be/O2KfM2T3m8c

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Alex Donaldson

What do you think about "prophecies" in churches where someone claims to have a word from God that they want to share and what they share is something like, "God is telling me that there is someone in the room who is struggling with (insert physical ailment) and wants you to know that it will get better."? I've seen this used many times at churches I've attended in the past and it has always made me very uncomfortable. I wouldn't put myself in the cessationist camp, but at the same time, to my mind, that's not prophecy. Would it fall under divination? If so, does that have a place in the Church?

M K

I visited a church once while travelling. We felt edified and felt that God was moving in that place until... it all become troublesome. There was a part of the service towards the end where they called the church prophets onto the stage. The senior prophetess and other other prophets began to speak in tongues and there were translators and then the prophetess began to give word of God about how Trump was God's elect and that no harm was to come to him and it went on. It was so hard to reconcile what the first part of the service was with the second. I still havent.

Laura Hughes

M K, I agree with your last sentence. There's just too many "prophecies" about Trump. So cringy and I think they put their will into these "prophecies."

Taylor Abeel

Great conversation! I would love to hear your take on how cognitive bias and motivated reason might play a role in "prophetic" interpretation. Specifically, how might Christians discern more accurately what God is actually "speaking" (if at all) when we are all subject to a wide range of biases that impact our reason and perceptions. Personally, I think most, if not all, "prophetic words" that I have heard Christians attribute God, even when qualified with phrases such as "I feel like God is saying...", are most likely just human thoughts. When people feel like God really spoke to them through a prophetic word, how is it any different than a cold reading from a magician or fortune teller? We are great at finding meaning in all sorts of strange coincidences!