I asked a question a moment ago, about how do non-believers explain the facts that some prophecies in the Bible are taking place. They say that "it is just like psychic, people guess and sometime come true" It is like horoscopes, 60% of the time they become true"
hahaha, that is just incredible. People don't find how to answers a simple question without comparing it to a senseless stuff.
2007-05-25 02:08:29 · 8 answers · asked by LawNerd 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What's coming true? As far as I've heard people always say that.
2007-05-25 02:12:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alright then. I explain it by saying it is down to an extremely subjective interpretation. Many of these 'prophecies' have been taking place forever and the subjective interpretation is constantly re-spun to make it look more like it is now.
For instance there have always been floods, there have always been wars which everyone swears was the final battle, there have always been earthquakes. All that is required to make these things into the 'end times' is a fatalistic angst attitude and the blinkered assertion that things are worse now than they have ever been.
I NOW PROPHESY THAT IN TIMES TO COME A LARGE SOLAR FLARE WILL MARK THE COLLAPSE OF AN IMPORTANT NATION'S ECONOMY........ Okay, first off I don't specify a time frame, so there's no way to disprove my prophecy, and eventually it is likely to happen. Second, importance is extremely subjective and anyone can say 'This nation has a failing economy, it must be the important nation the prophet spoke about.". Thirdly, I do not specify if the collapse begins before or after the solar flare. Fourthly I do not specify how large the solar flare is. All of these things are down to subjective interpretation. You could apply it to the fall of Rome (if I had made the prophecy in the past) or the end of communism in Russia or pretty much anything else.
The biblical prophecies are as vague and re-interpretable as mine. It is not a fact that they are taking place, it is a subjective interpretation that they are taking place. Yet another christian misuse of the word 'fact'.
Is that enough sense for you?
2007-05-25 09:12:37 · answer #2 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They aren't saying the believe in psychics.
Psychics cold read. They don't KNOW what's going to happen, they GUESS. And prophecies of the sort in the bible aren't hard to make. Eventually it has to happen. How many times have we seen men in th media who claim to be the Messiah? How many people believe them? Lots. So is that the prophecy? Someone has to believe them eventually.
A true psychic is very rare. So rare, they have yet to be proven. I believe we haven't even scratched the surface of what the brain can do or what it will evolve to.
The point ppl were trying to make was those who wrote the prophecies guessed. And they most likely altered the bible to show the prophecies were fortold.
2007-05-25 09:14:01 · answer #3 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can understand your feelings on this matter. You asked a very good question on the subject about "Bible Prophecy".
Sometimes I believe God gives some people gifts they are already born with. We must consider the source.
It will prove helpful for the believers to keep up on whats already taken place in the scriptures.
According to the book of Revelation there will be anti-christ who will show signs and wonders too, deceiving many.
2007-05-25 09:30:44 · answer #4 · answered by Busy Lady 2010 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not see anything mentioned in the Bible occurring now. Do you live in another world? Evidently so. I just read reviews of sylvia Browne's predictions for 2004 and 2006. Guess how many times she was wrong. I used to do horoscopes for people after studying Astrology for years with a teacher. Eventally, I saw believers saw only parts of their charts that happened to be somewaht accurate and ignorede many more that were totally wrong. I experimented with concocting my own predictions, and they were more accuraate than the horoscopes often. people see what they want to see. The Bible, Nostradamus, astrology, Sylvia Browne, etc. cannot really predict anything.
2007-05-25 09:18:43 · answer #5 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
are you looking at things in the bible....or at what "Rapturists" say is happening?? They are a bunch of nuts who think they know how to make the end of the world come about. The bible can be interperated in a lot of ways but most things in history DO repeat themselves because man is a slow learner.
2007-05-25 09:16:10 · answer #6 · answered by FAITH P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For those who are ready, no explanation is necessary and for those who are not, no explanation is possible! http://www.psychic-junkie.com
2007-05-25 19:37:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-05-25 09:17:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋