School of Prophets Conference

Originally Posted by keith4him

Well as long as we are discussing theology, lets use a common law from Hermeneutics, the arguement from Silence, seeing that we do not have every prophecy uttered in the NT we really can't assume that prophets or those that gave prophetic words didn't give accurate words.

But we can assume that there was that possiblity, thus the admonitions to test and judge (discern) words from God.

But, we can use the same argument from silence, and thereby assert that prophets in the New Testament gave accurate words. We could also assume that, because the Old Testament principle is never directly revised in New Testament teaching, it is still in effect. Thus the importance of understanding the difference between the gift of prophecy and the office of the prophet.

I infer from Paul's teaching to the church at Corinth that it was not uncommon to have more than one prophet in an assembly (or at least, in the Corinthian church):

I Corinthians 14:29-33
Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.
If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.
For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.