Should Pat Robertson Be Stoned For Making False Prophecies?
In Biblical times prophets were sometimes honored, sometimes reviled, but they were respected by the Israelites. A prophet could really kill a party: Thou must not dance before golden idols would not go over very well in a party honoring Baal. But prophets were perceived as messengers of God and only a fool would dare speak against them. Just ask the children who were torn apart by bears for making fun of the prophet Elishas bald pate. Taking up the mantle of a prophet was never done on a lark. The prophet was purporting to speak for Jehovah and the penalty for a wrong prognostication was death. But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, must be put to death. Deut. 18:20. You may say to yourselves, How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD? If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. Th
