If I made a prophecy that bananas would grow out of my nostrils, could someone later write that 500 people saw the bananas? I think so. Would that prove that the bananas were there? Sadly, no.
2007-02-27 03:14:04 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
babydoll: You are assuming that you have the testimony if 500 people. You don't. You have ONE source telling you that 500 people saw it. You have the testimony of ONE.
2007-02-27 03:21:59 · update #1
A. Quirious: I don't believe Jesus rose from the dead. Are you happy.
2007-02-27 03:34:39 · update #2
All it takes is a piece of paper and a pen.
2007-02-27 03:17:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Psychics who claim to be able to predict the future typically do it this way. It's pretty easy to make a lot of vague claims and then later pick out the ones that you can argue predicted some event or other, and claim to have a special power. That's pretty much the extent of Biblical "prophesy".
It's only slightly more difficult to make a lot of fairly specific claims and then later pick out the ones that seem like predictions of some event, and claim to have a special power.
Neither of those requires any special power at all, just a lot of dishonesty.
If you want to see an honest test of prophetic power, ask for a small set of specific predictions _of events that have not yet occurred_, agree in advance what will constitute "hits" and how many of the predictions must come true, and then look for those "hits".
You'll notice that psychics don't work that way. That's because they can't - there is no supernatural power to predict the future.
2007-02-27 11:22:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It isn't difficult at all. It is simply the author writing a book. It's like foreshadowing. You wouldn't call an author that uses foreshadowing a prophet.
Babydoll, No. It is not like that at all. It is like someone saying that they heard from someone else that 500 people saw chippy commit murder.
They would be laught out of the courtroom.
2007-02-27 11:20:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe I see those 500 bananas!
I believe because I believe!
2007-02-27 11:18:29 · answer #4 · answered by JP 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I could write a document on it right now.
2007-02-27 11:36:44 · answer #5 · answered by photogrl262000 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you were charged with murder and 500 people testified that they saw you do it you would be convicted.
2007-02-27 11:19:55 · answer #6 · answered by babydoll 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
These two thousand years and yours is the question that has no logical answer.
2007-02-27 15:30:51 · answer #7 · answered by super Bobo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in your bananas!!!
2007-02-27 11:18:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just as easy at it is to spout thoughts that DISclaim them!
2007-02-27 11:18:24 · answer #9 · answered by Hermes Trismegistus 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
But.....seriously dude......prophesies ARE being fulfilled.
From the Bible, anyway.
2007-02-27 11:24:38 · answer #10 · answered by AJM 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋