RamistThomist
Puritanboard Clerk
They could not contradict the apostles, and the other prophets had to confirm a prophet's revelation in the worship service. The eyewitnesses and the prophets provided supernatural checks on individual prophets during the time of the apostles. Those checks are now gone.
I don't see why they need supernatural checks. When Paul says "test the prophecies," I don't see what kind of supernatural criteria could be involved.
And how can we now lay hands to ordain a new covenant prophet when we have been given no criteria or instructions by which to call or identify one, like we do with elders or deacons?
I don't see the NT really concerned about "ordaining" prophets.