larry bobo Wrote:
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> “When Prophesy Fails” by Leon
> Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter is
> a classic study on how followers dig in their
> heels in the face of obvious discrepancies between
> reality and the “words from God” of their
> “prophets”. Y2K predictions are another
> example of Charismatic “prophets” missing the
> mark by using fear to control others. They all
> want the control by speaking “words from God”
> but none of the responsibility when they are wrong
> – they are not even willing to apologize for
> obvious errors because it would involve giving up
> their special position that they have conned
> others into believing they have. We have all
> witnessed "personal ministry" gone amiss where
> "words from God" have trashed people's lives. In
> the Old Testament, prophets got one miss and they
> rocked them to sleep. Apparently God doesn’t
> take too well to false prophets - and neither
> should we.
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Insightful post Larry. Following is a link to the book "When Prophecy Fails" that you mentioned above:
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