Regarding Steve Warren's expose' on Christian discipleship (The Tribune, Dec. 14), God, for His own reasons, chooses not to live among His children. In His stead He raises up prophets who teach, critique, warn and admonish mankind. The prophet's words are to be considered as though spoken by God, Himself.
Steve suggests that we should choose to follow a prophet's counsel only when what is taught is in harmony with what we believe is right. That attitude denies the need for a prophet, for if we believe we continually know of ourselves God's mind, then we risk trusting only ourselves for inspired guidance, an idea that has never borne good fruit.
Whenever we decide to pick and choose which of a prophet's teachings we will obey, we have become our own prophet, and when we become our own prophet we have then become a false prophet.
Food for thought.
Richard Ewing Davis, Stansbury Park