Do you think we are in the end times, ( I don't!!) due to what it says in the bible about the weather, wars, and the one I think most interesting, the 'increase in knowledge'??
2007-06-21 03:29:54 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
...All the prophecies have all ready came true, just look at the history of the human race. History does repeat itself, and that is a fact, the prophecy is nothing more than history repeating itself again and again. So, there is no prophesy if it was already done in history, and we all know that history will repeat itself again.
Basically, the prophecy is just rehashed history and spoon fed into religious followers.
2007-06-21 03:32:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The only prophecy that's come true that didn't come true before the bible was collated was that Israel would return to Palestine. That prediction didn't have any date associated with it and, to my mind, is the same as saying "the south will rise again" - some group of people wanted it to happen and they kept at it until it happened. Other than that, the record of the bible on prophecy is abysmal. Most predictions of the apocalypse are predicated on each generation being worse than the last but everybody thinks that - it's a predecessor to almost everything in recorded history. Thanks to science, the same can be said of the increase in knowledge. We haven't had a significant decrease in human knowledge since the loss of the library at Alexandria.
2007-06-21 10:41:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There has been odd weather, wars and an increase in knowledge for the last 10,000 years or so, if not longer.
Biblical end-time prophecies are so vague that they could be applied any time since the prophecies were first though of.
2007-06-21 10:38:37 · answer #3 · answered by Simon T 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, I mean, knowledge has always been "increasing" hasn't it? Each age knows more. And yes, there are a few wars going on, but by NO means is it the "warriest" time in human history. The conquest of the New World and Europe from about 900 to 1950 had a LOT more wars (to say nothing of what was going on in Asia).
No. But humankind has thought they were in the "end times" at pretty much every age. It's interesting to read ancient greeks talking about "it's the end of the world as we know it!" :)
2007-06-21 10:35:02 · answer #4 · answered by Cindy Lou Who --P3D-- 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Atheists are gonna say this: The Bible is a work of fiction. The prophecy in the Bible is fiction.
Again - sitting in the lawn chair, feet on the cooler, getting ready to watch the fireworks.
2007-06-21 10:38:00 · answer #5 · answered by yarn whore 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe the bible to be true and i know that a lot of the prophecies about events that haven't happened are vague enough to be twisted to say whatever you like
people have been claiming it's the end of times since the phrase was invented
2007-06-21 11:14:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. There's been issues with the weather since the beginning of time, there's been wars since the beginning of human existence, and man's knowledge has been increasing since the beginning of human existence. There's nothing really going on right now that hasn't ALWAYS been going on. People have been saying since the day that each prophesy was written that we're in the end times.
2007-06-21 10:36:22 · answer #7 · answered by Jess H 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The weather's always weird, there's always a war on somewhere and there was a great increase in knowledge when Gutenberg invented the printing press, so no, I don't think we're living in the "end times".
2007-06-21 10:45:58 · answer #8 · answered by EZSum 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We are continuously killing each other and increasing our knowledge, so I don't see anything unusual about either of those.
For a second, I thought this question was related to prophecies supposedly said and fulfilled in the same book.
2007-06-21 10:46:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The increase in knowledge is good. It's only bad for the church because if we get smarter, we won't believe in God anymore, and there goes a lot of money and jobs.The End isn't coming, and when it comes, it will be scientifically explained. No Antichrist. Sorry for the superficiality, but I'm in a hurry.
2007-06-21 10:42:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Anybody who makes a "prophecy" that is appropriately vague and non-specific with a generous use of metaphors can make their seeming ability to see into the future appear real.
Especially to those who want to accept their "gift."
If you think about it, psychics and prophets, including such figures as Nostrodamus, weren't given credit for their prophecies until AFTER an even happened that seemed to match their prediction. I think that a prophecy should be able to be nailed down to a specific event BEFORE it happens, before the supposed prophet gets credit.
El Chistoso
2007-06-21 10:37:30 · answer #11 · answered by elchistoso69 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋