I heard these very words on the History channel, I kid you not! It was from a, Dr. Michael D. Evans on a "Decoding the past" episode.
2007-11-20 02:56:32 · 14 answers · asked by Fedup Veteran 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He was talking about the bible...but what he doesn't say, is that MANY of those "Predictions" is nothing more than history repeating itself. Babylon has been destroyed LONG ago...many times in fact, and the Earth we know has had these very things such as many catastrophes before..
2007-11-20 03:00:36 · update #1
Birdy, I am "Fed up" with this government getting the USA into wars which are bankrupting the US all to give it to contractors, only to forget about the fallen and disabled Vets who are the result..
as I am just as "Fed up" with the creation of the North American Union. The SPP is laying the ground work for the NEW GOVERNMENT. It has 23 different working groups consisting from people from Canada, Mexico and the USA. These working groups are people who are setting up the new government...(Judicial Watch was able to get documents that show DHS knowing about all of this) such as a new Consumer group that Canada will be in charge of..(I remember that specifically) as well as creating a "Parliament" which will be OVER our supreme court. With the FOIA I have our own government documents to back this up.
2007-11-20 03:08:01 · update #2
King Arthur...The bible was written 200 years AFTER Christ was around. A man made document, perfect? Ha!
2007-11-20 03:09:27 · update #3
It doesn't make sense on the most basic level.
Predictions are things in the future and can't be proven until after the event.
Historical means the event already happened and is provable.
Putting them together as the same thing, as in "predictions are historical facts" makes no sense at all.
But the "History" Channel often has these types of shows that are purely editorial, and not really historical at all!
2007-11-20 03:01:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
As far as i can tell there are three types of predictions in the bible:
1) The bleeding obvious. War and rumors of war, etc. Wow, going out on a limb with these ones. If it does not give even the names of the countries involved forget it. I would like to see the names of the leaders and who wins.
2a) Post-predictions. Predictions that were written after the events happened. For example most of the 'prophecies' in Daniel had already taken place when it was written.
2b) Revisionist prophecies. This is the creation of historical events to ensure that prophecies were met. An example of this is having Joseph having to return to his birth city for a census just so Jesus could be born in Bethlehem, fulfilling the messiah-born-in-the-city-of-David prophecy. Most historians agree that this is ridiculous and would not have been a requirement for a Roman census.
Both of these are writings after the event, one creating the prophecy to match the event, the other creating the event to match the prophecy. That is why I put them together.
3) Failed.
There are quite a few of these:
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/proph/long.html
2007-11-20 11:32:08 · answer #2 · answered by Simon T 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I'd need to hear/see it in context. Dr. Evans may have been referring to the prediction being made as a historical fact. For example, it is fact that Nostradamus made predictions, and those predictions as part of history are facts. This does not imply anything about the validity of the predictions nor does it mean that they are going to come true.
Edit:
If the show was produced by Jacobvich, the guy that does "Naked Archaeologist" and "The Exodus Decoded", take everything in it with a large grain of salt. He has very little creditability and a tendency to string non-related facts into an unsupportable theory.
2007-11-20 11:02:31 · answer #3 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Perhaps what he meant was that a fulfilled prediction is strong evidence that a theory is right. For instance, the Big Bang predicted a uniform background radiation that comes from all directions. It took decades to find it, but it is there. That constitutes strong evidence that the Big Bang was right.
Added: Oh the Bible...well there are a ton like this one:
Isaiah 19:18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.
That never happened and it is a long dead language, so Egypt is not going to ever speak it. False predictions are strong evidence that your hypothesis needs altered.
2007-11-20 11:02:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Predictions can be classified as the best or most logical guess that might result from current events. Nothing more. If a prediction is made and it comes to pass this is not a miracle. It is simply the product of sound logic and reasoning (or coincidence).
2007-11-20 11:00:19 · answer #5 · answered by fierce beard 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
How silly. Someone could predict something that ends up happening, and then it becomes a historial fact, but that's about it. And the predictions are just guesses. But psyhics wouldn't get rich if they said they were guessing, would they?
2007-11-20 11:02:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, if well documented, it can be proven that a particular prediction was made....hence, it is a historical fact. Whether that prediction proved true or otherwise is another matter altogether.
2007-11-20 11:01:19 · answer #7 · answered by mzJakes 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It may be possible to predict things in general, but not in details.
2007-11-20 14:05:46 · answer #8 · answered by Avner Eliyahu R 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
find out who owns the history channel, then you see why this is part of their agenda.
2007-11-20 11:07:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
NO, predictions are historical theories, not facts!!
2007-11-20 11:41:00 · answer #10 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋