Augustine No Prophet

Catholics teach spiritual gifts such as prophecy are still maintained in their church, and claim their magisterium is made up of inspired men.

In the past many of their teachers were considered gifted.

Augustine is one such man who Catholics put on a theological pedestal. Yet, from his statements in history we know he wasn't a prophet. In his day a theory that men lived on the other side of the globe was pronounced false by Augustine and others in the Catholic body. Lactinaius is another that comes to mind.

Deuteronomy says if a prophets words are proven     false, they don't come to pass, we shouldn't fear their word.

Deu 18:22  When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

Augustine was indeed presumptuous when declaring there were no other men on other continents.

But as to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth, where the sun rises when it sets to us, men who walk with their feet opposite ours that is on no ground credible. And, indeed, it is not affirmed that this has been learned by historical knowledge, but by scientific conjecture, on the ground that the earth is suspended within the concavity of the sky, and that it has as much room on the one side of it as on the other: hence they say that the part that is beneath must also be inhabited. But they do not remark that, although it be supposed or scientifically demonstrated that the world is of a round and spherical form, yet it does not follow that the other side of the earth is bare of water; nor even, though it be bare, does it immediately follow that it is peopled. For Scripture, which proves the truth of its historical statements by the accomplishment of its prophecies, gives no false information; and it is too absurd to say, that some men might have taken ship and traversed the whole wide ocean, and crossed from this side of the world to the other, and that thus even the inhabitants of that distant region are descended from that one first man.[73]

He also says the theory the earth is suspended in the sky is scientific theory, but we know this was actually written in Isaiah.

What it proves is his writings were of human study and not prophetic, he wasn't being moved by the Holy Spirit.