How did they know what was going to happen way before they happen and how come we only know what they mean but after the event happened? Did they have some sort of time machines in the future and decided to go back in time and warn us?
2007-03-21 14:57:08 · 11 answers · asked by Cipher 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
They are two very different cases, and have to be answered seperately.
The Bible was by "Divine Knowledge", where God conveyed the information to a chosen few. In Old Testament times, if someone claiming to be a prophet of God made a bad prediction, they were stoned to death. In other words, for a prophet to be consistently accurate was a sign that God talked to him/her. Therefore they were the genuine thing, and so the various messages they carried to the people were really from God and had to be obeyed.
Nostradamus never revelled how he made his predictions. Some say he gazed into a shallow container of water and saw visions, etc. No-one really knows. He disguised is predictions because in that time, seeing the future was regarded as witchcraft by the church, and anyone caught doing that was usually burnt alive, often after being torchured to recant their evil ways. However the predictions are so cryptic that it is hard to decode them in advance of the event. Some would suggest that they are so cryptic that any can be applied to some event in history.
In the case of Bible prophecies, the important ones recorded were about thow the relationship between God and man would be repaired, and so the Old Testament prophesies are mostly about the coming of the Messiah (Jesus Christ) and in the New Testament (written after his coming ad crucifiction) they are about the end times.
2007-03-21 15:14:38 · answer #1 · answered by Just Helping 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
individually, i don't think interior the Bible code and that i'm a huge fan of Professor Gans and comprehend it replaced right into a Rabbi who got here up with the assumption yet I do exactly not think of there is something to it. A code matrix does say the Earth would be destroyed via a comet in 2012 whether it additionally says the comet would be destroyed till now it hits earth. The atypical ingredient is that many faiths/cultures envisioned the tip of the international in 2012 by way of astronomical alignments of three planets which easily might reason some ameliorations in Earth yet i actually do not think of the earth will bring about 2012 yet who is conscious, possibly i'm purely an optimist. I do think of that is atypical that the human beings who learn the Torah codes envisioned and tried to warn Yitzak Rabin of a warning approximately being assisinated. they got here across the matrix till now it happend. all the others they discover afterwards. I admit that one creeped me out slightly.
2016-10-19 07:35:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They didn't. They simply made their predictions that were general enough to apply to many situations. It's like horoscopes today. Nostradamous' predictions had already been applied to events in the 19th century before new agers in the 20th even thought about it.
2007-03-21 15:06:04 · answer #3 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure.lets take some of his predictions like the end of the world in 1994....1998...oh wait now it's 2012.
He made a HUGE book of predictions,and any current event you can find something to relate it to.
2007-03-21 15:45:31 · answer #4 · answered by soulburner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you read these predictions, you find most of them are very vague, and can be interpreted to fit the event that just happened. "A great fire from the sky" suits 9/11, so everyone is amazed that it was predicted 100's of years previous.
2007-03-21 15:01:36 · answer #5 · answered by biscuitperifrank 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Not only Nostradamous, but the predictions of many more
became history.
http://dmoz.org/Society/Future/Predictions/
If you leave out the religious part, what Edger Cayce wrote
about future became history:
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/cayce11.html
The future predictions of many psychic readers have
also became history:
http://dmoz.org/Society/Paranormal/Psychic/Readings/
Human mind is more powerful than any time machine:
http://www.occultopedia.com
http://scifipedia.scifi.com/
http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm375035.html
http://www.bluemoonnews.com/images3.htm
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com
http://plato.stanford.edu
(Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
http://www.iep.utm.edu
(Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
http://www.psychology.org/
(psychology Encyclopedia)
http://www.arikah.com/encyclopedia/Psychology
http://www.conservapedia.com/
http://community.livejournal.com
(Answers forum)
http://www.discusstv.com/
(Answers forum)
2007-03-22 00:52:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
he used a simple method. resonable logic (as opposed to deductive logic). in this method you examen facts as you know them and predict the most likly concievable outcome. this can be done with what many people view as an uncanny or even divine amount of accuracy.
2007-03-21 15:00:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
the spirit of prophesy is the testimony of Jesus... Nostradomus missed the boat
the Bible codes... there may be something to them... maybe to some degree... but they in and of themselves would be nothing... only as far as they point to the contents of the Bible, which is the important thing... not some kind of tea leaf interpretation
2007-03-21 15:03:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the predicts are right in the old and new testament if you sit down and read it and understand like 911 and the hurricanes and other things that are happening.
2007-03-22 02:01:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who knows because time and space is not completely explored or figured out yet.
2007-03-21 15:01:01 · answer #10 · answered by venturemex 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋