The Effect of a Frenzied Mind

Interestingly, Nicole was telling me about a movie review she had read on a recent Hollywood movie that just came out that is more or less based on a biblical story. Some of the criticisms of the movie point to the fact that the producer is an atheist, and that his admitted goal was to take a Bible story and cast it in as non-Biblical a light as he possibly could; and to strip God out of the story. Anyway, from what I heard it sounded like the main character, a prophet of God, is depicted as an eccentric zealot, and the movie suggests that he received commandments of God not through divine revelation, but through a hallucination while he was on drugs.

Is this depiction of a prophet of God and the process of revelation not analogous to the arguments of the anti-Christ Korihor? Listen to one of his arguments:

13 O ye that are bound down under a foolish and a vain hope, why do ye yoke yourselves with such foolish things? Why do ye look for a Christ? For no man can know of anything which is to come.
14 Behold, these things which ye call prophecies, which ye say are handed down by holy prophets, behold, they are foolish traditions of your fathers.
15 How do ye know of their surety? Behold, ye cannot know of things which ye do not see; therefore ye cannot know that there shall be a Christ.
16 Ye look forward and say that ye see a remission of your sins. But behold, it is the effect of a frenzied mind; and this derangement of your minds comes because of the traditions of your fathers, which lead you away into a belief of things which are not so (Alma 30).

See how he tries to argue that revelation from God is really just lunacy? See how he tries to make prophets like like mental patients? Good thing we have the Book of Mormon to reveal the plots of the Devil and all those that follow him and work for him.