This isn't meant to be sarcastic. It's just something that I was curious about and I don't know if it's been asked before.
I know that some of you are familiar with the bible. If you noticed things taking place that rang true of scriptural prophesies of the last days, would it make you rethink your beliefs?
2007-12-14 14:44:57 · 30 answers · asked by Little Red Hen 2.0 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I thought I could get serious answers with no sarcasm or rude remarks. I apologize for being wrong.
2007-12-14 14:54:16 · update #1
It wont do a thing for them and this is why:
God has given them over to a depraved mind. They do not have the holy spirit to guide them in knowledge. They can not and will not accept unless they are open to the spirit. and they have made a conscious choice to shut him out. (which is why they will not understand what i just wrote)
Even if you walk up to them and show them scripture they will not listen--or try to rationalize it as something else..
they choose not to believe..
thanks
2007-12-14 14:59:18 · answer #1 · answered by johnblessed01 4 · 1⤊ 8⤋
I have totally read the bible and have taken Theology.The prophesies in the Bible, can be ascribed to many things which has already occurred, or are occurring today.. One I will never forget. When Jesus was dying on the cross, The roman magistrate , told the soldiers, Divide his garments, so that the Bible prophecy might be fulfilled.. Cesar's, advisers,just as Herold's and Pontius Pilate's followed the written Old Testament.. The written word in the bible, is too vague to specifics, even the book of revelation,, I liken it to the foretellings of Nostradamus!! Interesting reading, but not to be considered seriously.. And after I have witnessed the hypocrisy of the churches of today, all of them are no different than the PHRASES, in the temples in the days of Jesus.. Do you remember the disdain Jesus had for them?? Hypocrites one and all!!!
2007-12-14 23:09:57 · answer #2 · answered by solomon 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The prophesies of the Bible are sufficiently vaguely worded that a very wide range of interpretation is possible, making them unreliable at best. With little imagination, you can make them fit current events. You could have done the same 50 years ago, and I have a hunch you'll probably be able to do the same 50 years from now.
2007-12-14 23:00:23 · answer #3 · answered by 222 Sexy 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm not an atheists but always check out the questions because a lot of times questions from Christians to atheists are also relevant to pagans and heathens.
No, I'm sorry, I wouldn't rethink my beliefs. Christians have been finding "the end times" since the time of Christ. Every year there's a group that hole up somewhere waiting for the end of the world. That's been happening for 2,000 years. Some thought Hitler was the Anti-Christ or Hitler or...........
2007-12-14 23:05:03 · answer #4 · answered by Aravah 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If they were exactly true.
I'm not talking about someone's desperate attempt to analyze something to seem like it "meets" the prophesy. I'm not talking about claiming that "all the natural disasters that are happening right now..."--those things have *always* been going on. We just have media coverage of it now. 100 years ago you wouldn't have even known about a tsunami in Asia or a wildfire in California or a hurricane in New Orleans unless you, or someone you knew, lived there.
It what is described in the Bible is happening literally...
then yes. It would make me re-think my beliefs.
2007-12-14 22:55:17 · answer #5 · answered by Jess H 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
well, if there were any scriptural prophesies that weren't so vague, symbolic and cryptic that they weren't open to all kinds of wacky interpretations and the fulfillment couldn't be mistaken for anything other than the fulfillment of said prophesies then .. maybe. however, no such Biblical prophesy exists. they're ALL cryptic and symbolic and open to wacky interpretation.
i've read science fiction novels that more accurately and concisely predicted the future than any Bible "prophesy".
perhaps sci fi writers are more in touch with "God" then were those ancient Hebrew goat herders you venerate.
2007-12-14 22:53:45 · answer #6 · answered by nebtet 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The answer to your question would be...
No it would not make me rethink my beliefs. The prophesies in the bible can be interpreted so many ways that they could be applied to almost any time period, thereby losing any claim to truth (at least in my eyes). Now, if god itself came to me and sat down to have a conversation with me then yes that might have me rethink my beliefs.
2007-12-14 22:50:35 · answer #7 · answered by c i 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I am familiar with history as well as the bible. There have been nut cases in every generation that noticed "things taking place that rang true of predictions of the last days".
2007-12-14 22:54:49 · answer #8 · answered by What? Me Worry? 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The "prophecies" are written in such a way that they could mean ANYTHING. So there really isn't any way to determine rather that is the case or not.
And you guys love to skip the ones that were clear misses. Examples:
So why are Christians sometimes infertile?
Deuteronomy 7:14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
When is Egypt suddenly going to switch to a dead language?
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.
2007-12-14 22:49:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
Prophesies are known to be vague. People thought the world would end in 2000 but it didn't.
Answer to your question is NO.
2007-12-14 22:54:35 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The bible isn't precise enough for us to know if it relates to today. For the past 500 years, people have thought the end of days was upon them and they were wrong. I doubt that we're interpreting the bible any better than them.
2007-12-14 23:02:11 · answer #11 · answered by S K 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋