Then said they, Come,
and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall
not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the
word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the
tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
"Who does Jeremiah think he is? Let us ignore him now and
attack him with our tongues. Today, when a prophet speaks to
those people who will not hear the Lord, they smite with their
tongues as well. They say, 'The age of prophets is past. You
are not inspired like Jeremiah was. He was a prophet.' And
thus they testify—the only prophet they will hear is a dead one.
And their fathers, who heard the living prophet, resolved to
make him a dead one." -- Douglas Wilson, Scripture Stories: Lives and Times
Living prophets demand living faith. Dead faith can honor dead prophets. It does not require any faith to raise a monument to a man you do not have to obey. We do not honor our ancestors by merely keeping their last names anymore than we become children of Abraham by the accident of birth.
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