Confirming God’s Answers

Q. I hope all is well and I have yet another question. And to keep it short and simple, who is right when two (or more) christians disagree about something and everybody is using and/or saying “I’ve prayed about it, God confirmed it, etc.”. Or better yet, what did the disciples/apostles do when they disagreed. And the ironic thing is, is that it’s typically church leadership disagreeing with an “unknown” laymen church goer, who I believe is right.

A. God confirms things through the testimony of 2 independent witnesses.  It’s an application of Deut. 19:15, and it means that 2 people who have no way of knowing that you have prayed about something have come to you independently of each other with the same answer. It’s like having 2 witnesses in a court of law.  Since God is not arbitrary and cannot lie, if two witnesses don’t agree that tells you there has been no confirmation.  One or both are mistaken.