What is up with all of these prophets? In The Gleaner (January 2), I read the prophecies of two so-called prophets. One prophesied crime reduction and economic growth, while the other prophesied more bloodshed and dark days ahead.

Since God is consistent and does not contradict himself, I am happy to say that I do not believe these men heard from God. I believe that prophet of doom should honour his word and give up the microphone since murder went down in 2006.

- Wain, ragawain@earthlink.net, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Via Go-Jamaica

Tuesday, January 2, being a possible exception, Ian Boyne often highlights anti-evangelical beliefs, laughing up his sleeves. The verdict was in before Hardtalk's second commercial break. It showed everyone having an opportunity to respond to the gospel. The Acts accounts of: Cornelius and the Ethiopian Eunuch (chapters 8 & 10, respectively) teach that response to general revelation is followed by God's provision of special revelation. The two are inextricably linked. Those who supposedly never heard the gospel are without excuse.

Boyne's guest, though, missed alluding to the many so-called 'unreached,' be they Burmese or other nationalities in the Ten-Forty Window, who are Christians today. The God who sends the gospel, also places individuals along its paths.

No one, the media-savvy Boyne included, can yet postulate a plausible solution from Scriptures; which , incidentally, are the only historically verifiable revelation to mankind.