Answer #14

           It is a big responsibility for one to claim to speak or teach as God’s representative because this means that he is doing the work of a "prophet of God." It is no light matter in God’s eyes to do this because of the effect it would have on his people. When one does takes on this responsibility and commits an error by teaching what is wrong, then he puts himself in line for judgment from Jehovah. He becomes a false prophet as well as misleading God’s people at the same time.