I'm cautious by nature. That is probably a result of being analytical. I desire to discern everything. I fully believe that we can know wether something is or is not of God.
God can speak through many people, even those with messed up doctine. He even established wisdom in the mouths of nursing infants and babes as Psalms put it.
Does Kim Clement hold that same position on salvation? Maybe it has changed, I know my understanding of the things of God is still being refined, but that does not mean that God cannot speak through him, especially since many of his prophecies have come to pass. Though I cannot help but to be skeptical of ones that have not come to pass, but prophecies are not always something that will definitely happen but are determined by those being prophesied over.
For example people have spoken words from the Lord over my life, all share similarities, but they just aren't just going to happen regardless. Someone may tell me that the Lord showed them that I would be ministering as an apostle, but if I never get up off my butt and start to do the work of the Lord, it will never happen.
Anyways...
I believe that the Lord can speak to any one of His children regarding things of the natural and spiritual realm. His sheep hear his voice.
Yeah the prophetic arena does have areas where it needs correcting (so does the pastoral, evangelists, teachers, apostles and Body of Christ in general) but it does not mean that it should be dismissed all-together. We are the body and byg etting fed up with the prophetic and totally dismissing it is like cutting off our arm saying we dont need it. If we dismiss a functioning because it is not perfect then that means we should dismiss pastors, teachers, apostles and evangelists too, because they also have their imperfections.
The problem is that the body of Christ is too buisy fighting itself to fight the devil. And the devil is sitting back and laughing his head off, because we are all trying to separate ourself from each other. It is like a person quartering their own body. ..mmmm....Quite sad.
The devil is not as stupid as we would like to think he is. Lucifer is a tactical genious. What? Do you think he accidentally stumbled and just so happened to gain control of world pilitics, commerce, billions of unsaved people and even dividing and weakening the Body of Christ? You think he accidentally tainted the prophetic, pastoral, teachers, evangelists and apostles? He knows what he is doing, and we sit back and allow ourselves to be manipulated by him. Once again....quite sad....
Anyways, I know I had more to say but I forgot it...hmmm o well. If I remember, then I'll add it.