False Prophets
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- Biblical prescription for identifying a false prophet.
- The Dead Sea Scrolls, 4Q375
- A prescription for testing the veracity of a prophet.
- The Dead Sea Scrolls, 4Q339
- A list of false prophets.
- Joseph Smith Jr. in Dean C. Jesse, ed., "The Papers of Joseph Smith", Vol. 1. pp. 37-43
- Comments on how mankind always seems ready to hear and accept dead prophets, but reject the living as false prophets.
- Joseph Smith, compiled by Joseph Fielding Smith, "Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith", pp. 102-105
- Joseph Smith relates of the how one Matthias (calling himself Joshua) came to his home and preached to his family. The man turned out to be of disreputable background, and taught false doctrine regarding the resurrection. (He taught reincarnation, to be exact.) The Lord informed Joseph that this man's God was the devil and that he could not keep such a man in his house.
- Joseph Smith, "The King Follett Sermon"
- "Every man has a natural, and, in our country, a constitutional right to be a false prophet, as well as a true prophet. If I show, verily, that I have the truth of God, and show that ninety-nine out of every hundred professing religious ministers are false teachers, having no authority, while they pretend to hold the keys of God’s kingdom on earth, and was to kill them because they are false teachers, it would deluge the whole world with blood."