Do you think biblical and prophecies in general are linked to Astronomy?

Question

The Maya charted the skies down to a calender of a little over 5000 years. History tells us that they were genius' in the field of astronomy and charting the movement of the stars. They have predicted the end of a the current "phase" to be december 2012.

Relative to the many prophecies made by various religions (including Christianity) and psychics/foretellers such as Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce which point to this era as one of significant change, do you think the Maya could indeed be accurate, and some sort of occurance will take place - whether it be a major war, religious changes or shift in spiritual consciousness?

Answer 1

Edgar Cayce was associated with the Disciples of Christ. He read the Bible once for every year that he was alive. He taught Sunday School for years. Maybe, he got some of his ideas from the BIBLE.

Answer 2

Sure. We are already in the change, not headed for an end. The earth has been through many shifts like the one we are experiencing now. It's not a single event that makes the shift occur. A global natural disaster might get the credit, or a nuclear war, but that is just what can be seen.

There are a few scholars that read the Mayan calendar differently. They suggest that 2012 is the beginning, not the end.
But it is obvious that they were masters at reading the stars.

If this culture placed such an emphasis on the stars in their lives, then you wonder if maybe they had it all right and were living well and we are just struggling along, living without the stars in our daily lives.

Answer 3

The current "phase" you're talking about is probably the one called the "age of Aquarius". (Remember the song?)

I think it's the spring equinox when sunset is seen behind a backdrop of the constellation Aquarius. It took us a little over 2000 years to rotate through the galaxy to the point where we're leaving Pisces and entering Aquarius. Before that we were in Aries, and before that Taurus. (This is all fuzzy, I might be wrong on the order there...)

These are meaningless readings of the stars. Until you've established that God sets his OWN calendar by ours, what have you accomplished? We might just meet him in person and he'll tell us that we were looking in the wrong direction! We should have chosen the fall equinox!

(You know, that would set us off by about a thousand years! So much for Mayan precision!)

Answer 4

Everything that will occur in human history will be caused by human actions! The only exception to this is nature but that is part of the cycle of life by which we evolved to the level we are now!

There will not be an end of the world type of thing until the sun burns out or an asteriod hits the earth. Either way we have no control over either so why worry about it. It isn't as if we can stop either if they would occur!

Answer 5

No, Animals and stones are not God and have no power even to move themselves let alone predict the occurrence of anything. And no amount of bodies thrown off Pyramids could forestall the future or change a thing.

Answer 6

I'm not terribly inclined to believe that the stars have any mystical power over us or that they give us "clues" as to things to come. However, I think that it would be more likely that we, as a race, cause something to happen just because we are so sure that it will. For example, if you explain the astrological significance of Mercury in retrograde to someone, and they start having bad luck -- you'll never know if the bad luck would have happened anyway.

Answer 7

Absolutely no way.
Just because a concept is interesting and entertaining or even 'a good idea' just isn't enough to make it true.
The same principle applies to religion. God does not exist. It is imaginary.

Answer 8

No one but God knows when the end will come. Everyone who has set a date has been wrong

Answer 9

Where in the bible does it talk about the year 2012?

Answer 10

Wow, is that really you? Amazing specimen.