True or False: Prophets are never recognised in their own lifetimes?
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I'd actually say in the last couple thousand years, it has been about 50/50
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It depends on what you mean by prophet and who is designating them as such. I think MLKing was prophetic, and I think he was recognized as such which is one of the reasons he was shot. I also don't think their main purpose is to be recognized, it is to stimulate change.
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false
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Well, Christ was regarded as a prophet by His followers whilst he was still alive. However, the test of a prophet is, typically, to see if what they say comes true. If the person forecasts something a few thousand years into the future, then they will probably be recognized posthumously.
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False. Prophets are often recognized in their own lifetimes. Do you mean religious prophets, or scientific prophets, or political prophets? Do you mean only people who predicted things accurately, or all people who gathered a following who CONSIDERED them a prophet, even if the followers turned out to be wrong? Anyway, people in all three categories have been considered prophets in their own lifetimes: 1. Martin Luther, Martin Luther King, Jim Jones, Joseph Smith, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Augustine, etc. (Not all religious prophets are good ones!) 2. Darwin, Einstein, Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Jay Gould. 3. James Carville, Karl Marx, Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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