Although I've had more significant experiences (including some that I'm unlikely ever to share in a newspaper column), my meeting with that professor, ultimately trivial though it surely seems, did teach me something very important: I've been told that prophets cannot foretell the future, and that we cannot know things except through natural means. But I can testify, from unmistakable personal experience, that those two claims are false.
Daniel C. Peterson is a professor of Islamic studies and Arabic at Brigham Young University, where he also serves as editor in chief of the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative. He is the founder of MormonScholarsTestify.org, the general editor of "Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture" online at www.mormoninterpreter.com and he blogs daily at www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson.
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