okay...this one is a bit tricky!?

Question

If i saw the future,(which i didnt for example) and i saw what was going to happen...becuz of what i wrote.
So i wrote it and it did happen, was i the cuase for what happened!
IDK!
I am thinking about isiaih and matthew...its amazing how many times matthew quates isiaih when he saw the future of the coming of Jesus
....well what i am getting to is if isiaih saw the future and new what matthew was going to do(Which would be make up a story about jesus) dont you think he would of wrote what he saw even thou what he wrote would lead to the writings about jesus.
Could he have changed his own destiny! IDK i am lost you probbaly are to I d even know what the question is but if some can answer this ill be damn!

Answer 1

Even if you can see the future, what you have seen need not necessarily occur. This is because what you have seen only represents one timeline, whereas every current moment represents a potential juncture where you can possibly do something which alters the future timeline.

The future is not curved in stone and can be altered... since it has not happened yet.

Answer 2

The future may very well be carved in stone. It depends on if you believe in determinism or not. And even some believe that you can live in a deterministic world and still make choices (Dennett et. al.) That being said...

I myself do not believe in determinism. I do believe in causation and do believe that we have the ability to make choices that have an impact on our reality. Every moment does present an opportunity to do one thing or another. I could choose to type this sentence or I couldn't. The point is some effects are minute in scale, while other decisions like whether or not to launch a nuclear strike would have significant historical implications.

Now, if you see the future can you do something to change it, I'm not so sure about that. You have to look at where your beliefs lie. If you are a determinist (as it seems by your religious preference you may be), then everything is already set in motion and we're just here to play it out. Whether it is "God" who made the plan, or some other arbitrary factor is a moot point. If you subscribe to free will however, you could try to intervene and change the course of what was "to be". This then begs the question as to whether or not what you saw was the future, or just a possible time line that could be followed. Happy hunting!

Answer 3

I don't quite get you're question (try the spell checker; it works wonders)... but I think I get where It's leading. If you knew the future, would you change it?
Anyway, if you really knew the future, you couldn't change it. If you're going to bring religion into this, then I will too. No man can upset God's plans. If God intends for something to happen, it will happen. Jesus knew he was going to suffer through the atonement. It had to happen. He knew it.
But, Isaiah didn't get to make up his own stories. Neither did Matthew. They wrote what they were inspired to write, with feelings prompted by the Holy Ghost. That's why what Isaiah wrote WAS the future, and that's why Matthew's writings fulfilled the prophecies, and why Jesus did everything he did.

Answer 4

Tricky yes1

It has been established that the collection of books called the Bible were corrupted, that is changed up prior to the voting to which books would be included at the Nicene Council in 325 A.C.E. Further corruption continued with various versions through today.

The gospels were not written by companions of Jesus, but by those who lived much later, sometime between 50-100 years later.

It is a simple matter to claim prophesy in text not available for common men to read for more than 1500 years after the council. Common men in the Roman Catholic tradition were not encouraged to read the Bible until the late 1960's after, Vatican II. The Protestant Reformation encouraged the reading much earlier because of J. Guttenburg's printing press. The reading was restricted to men of means, as books were very expensive for the better part of 150 years, much like owning a video recording in the 1950's. Having the access to a tutor also was an issue, as was the willingness to read. Today in USA literacy remains an issue for a good number who have more than a 5 generation legacy in that country. More important than reading is reading comprehension. Even though one can read, it does not mean that one comprehends that which is read. This is particularly true of those who do not have necessary background information specific to the reading material at hand. Reading legal contracts, medical reports or technical documents are different from reading novels, fiction, non fiction, or short stories.

For instance, I have limitted ability to answer your question due to background information. I see several good curiousities. I hope I am giving you something useful.

We witness the ability of Humans to spin, twist, fabricate, manipulate, and change the facts related to the truth and the truth itself, wittingly or unwittingly in everyday living. Nothing has changed unscuplous men are the same past or present.


1. Mathew was written many years after the fact, he was not contemporary with Jesus.

2. We do not bring ideas into existance just by thinking it. Working,planning,or testing the idea perhaps but not thinking it.

Predicting events of futre-time is possible. Precognition, clairavoiance, insight, discernment, dreams, etc. are all tools availble to help Humans through their perceptions of the illusion of life.

Answer 5

There is no credible evidence to support the notion that foreseeing the future is possible. However, if one could see the future, could one change it? If the future perceived is THE future, then it is probably fixed and one can do nothing to change it. However, if the future perceived exists as only one of an infinite number of possible futures, then it might be possible to change the future by altering our behavior in the present.

However, the stories of the Bible are just that, stories. The only reason that there is any messianic prophesy in the Old Testament is due to revisions made to it by early Christian councils. The Bible cannot be trusted as a valid historical document any more than one would trust "The Epic of Gilgamesh."

Answer 6

If you can see the future then the event that is happening is because you can see the future. The future would be working on the premise that you saw and would act upon it, because that is what will happen. I do not believe that you can see the future without that being the future. Say I look into the future and know something, I can never take that back because that IS what happened and me seeing it was all a part of that. crazy question. good luck with your magic eightball!

Answer 7

Firstly it's I'll be damned. Secondly, you're right. Self-inflicted/prophesying process is like bursting the stock-market bubble or jinxing the very action to be jinxed.

Answer 8

Dupe!

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkMvrtem.YOB9hO6X8EWI27sy6IX?qid=20060718190019AAqjwBQ

Answer 9

Yes, because bringing the idea of what might happen into existence is cause for it to happen.

Answer 10

Your problem is that you don't believe in prophecy and in God. I can't change your thinking. My advice to you is to that you need to examine your belief and your reasoning.