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Originally Posted by Praxeas
Prophecies do NOT fail. Prophets might fail, but prophecies do not fail. A prophecy is the LORD speaking what shall come to pass. If it does not come to pass then the LORD lied. That is why it was so important in the bible for a prophet to be tested as to his word when he spoke in the name of the LORD.
BTW what exactly is a hit and miss? is it that a prophet made up a prophecy? Is it that he just misunderstood what God said? Is it that God missed and told the wrong prophecy?
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While I agree that Prophecies do not fail in the sense you are saying, they do go unfulfilled because of certain conditions that may be connected with them. So I would say that prophecies are conditional upon our response to them. It does not mean God lied. And it does not mean a man lied.
But Again, I see a difference in the gift of prophecy, and the office of a Prophet.
The history of the "hit and miss Prophet" is that recently it was said that a Prophet was ok even if he missed it sometimes. So Prophet Jimbo could prophesy that God was going to raise up Sister SuzyQ off of her deathbed, and if she died it was ok. He just missed it on that one. He had previously prophesied that Carol Sue's wart would fall off, and it had. SO he was still a true prophet, even though his ratio was not 100%.
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