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Are you saying that Muhammad was *not* a prophet? Read the definition:
"In religion, a prophet is an individual who is claimed to have been contacted by the supernatural or the divine, and to speak for them, serving as an intermediary with humanity, delivering this newfound knowledge from the supernatural entity to other people.[1][2] The message that the prophet conveys is called a prophecy." (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophets_of_Islam#Table_of_prophets.2Fmessengers_in_the_Quran )
That's the definition as Islam would have it. That makes any old psychic hotline lady a prophet as well.
No, the way it was done in the OT was that if someone had a message with a prophecy from God to declare, they would stand before the elders of that time and deliver it. The scribes would record and notarize it. That way, if it came true, it would be on the record who said it, and further attention would be paid to the other things they said.
There was extremely little tolerance for false prophets, so such was rarely attempted. This is why we have the books of the prophets.
Lol. How did that work out for Joseph & Mary's kid? He should have worked more with the elders, huh?