Man, FireFox has the worst textarea handling ever! First of all a search within the page (i.e. Ctrl-F) does NOT search for text within a textarea, even if that text was there originally when the page loaded. Second, it has this very very annoying hilighting problem that if the textarea has a scroll bar and you highlight part of the text, click away and then click back on the textarea, it highlights some random part of the text. What the hail's with that? Oh, and my sweet JavaScript thing that I made to post my blog entries causes the textarea to scroll to the top for no apparent reason, which gets rather annoying considering I click on the bold button, which is clicking away, which has a tendency to highlight random text. So in my last post I had a random bold appearing right in the middle of it that I had to copy and paste into notepad to find (since I can't do a find within textarea) and it scrolled all the way to the top, so I lost the position that I was boldening.

I was reading Wikipedia about prophets and it contains this quote:



This is exactly what I believe. It's funny how in charismatic churches when people claim to have the gift of prophecy, they are always so vague that you really have no way of testing them. The bible says to test the prophets. If God wants us to test them, He would make them testable. His revelation would be precise and to the point. And when modern-day "prophets" decide that they are going to be precise, they make profound errors. In my church (mainly on the Tuesday services) the pastor lets anyone that wishes to prophecy do it. The most common thing that they say is that "God loves us"... Wow! Now there's some new revelation I've never heard before. Why not just read John 3:16, Galatians 2:20, 1 John 3:1, Revelations 1:5, or the best one would probably be Romans 8:38-39. At least then we can be sure it's the word of God.

The second most common "prophecy" in my church is that God has "new things" for us. Uh-huh. Has anyone ever lived a day of their life exactly the same as the previous day? Even people living in prison have "new things" happen every day. How about being a bit more precise so that people will know what to expect. The prophecies of God are always to produce a change. Every book in the bible contains guidelines of what we should do in order to live the best life. All of the prophets who spoke to the kings and rulers in Biblical times did so in order to get them to change (mostly to stop sinning) and all of the prophecies were precise. The first prophecy that comes to mind is in Daniel 4, when Daniel interprets Nebuchadnezzar's dream.



It may not be the best example of a precise prophecy, but it was the first one I thought of. Notice how Daniel says exactly what would happen. He told it directly to the king, not saying "one of the six-thousand people here will be stripped of his possessions", but going direct to the source. He said exactly what would happen and WHY it would happen; he would be stripped of his kingdom because of his pride. He said exactly how LONG it would happen for and what would happen afterwards. The "seven periods of time" probably refer to seven years and after this time was up, he would regain his kingdom and worship God alone. However the most important part is that every single part of this prophecy came true with 100% accuracy!. Modern day charismatic "prophets" can't even come close. Sure, when they say God loves us and he has new things for us, they are accurate because the Bible says God loves us and it is nearly impossible to not have new things happen, but just because their prophecy may be true, does not make them a prophet. In fact, most of the times when they prophecy that something new would happen to me on that day, it ends up being just another ordinary day with nothing that out of the ordinary.