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"Are you calling Joseph Smith a false prophet?"
Let's set Joseph Smith aside and start with what
God said about true and false prophet
s: "But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name,
which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other
gods, that prophet shall die. And if you say in your heart, ‘How shall we know
the word which the LORD has not spoken?' - when a prophet speaks in the name of
the LORD, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which
the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not
be afraid of him." (Deuteronomy 18:21-22)
So, according to God, a false prophet is one whose prophecy doesn’t come true.
Joseph Smith, who founded Mormonism, prophesied that he would be alive
when
Jesus returns. Joseph Smith died in 1844 and Jesus hasn’t returned yet, so
the prophesy of Joseph Smith didn't
"come to pass", which
according to
God's Word above makes
his prophecy false and Joseph Smith false prophet.
While it isn't easy to have Joseph Smith, whom your belief system reveres,
identified as a false prophet, this is what
the Bible indicates, so if you have
issues with Joseph Smith and his false prophecy,
please ask God to show you the
truth about
Mormonism.
The above passage also applies to all self-proclaimed Christians who make prophecies.
If it comes true, we need to ask if it wasn’t a coincidence. But
if the prophecy doesn't come true, whoever uttered it is a false
prophet as defined by God Himself and quoted above.
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