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Originally Posted by NLYP
You misunderstand the statement...
In fact he was "forced".
He was forced by his good conscience.
I did not insinuate otherwise.
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Was it conscience or the choice to remove himself from a stressful situation?
If it was a matter of conscience, that would make it a right/wrong issue, and that doesn't seem to be what he is saying.
No sense in dramatizing this more than it needs to be.
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"Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel."
--Amos 7:14-15
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