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Mymom | 09:30 Tue 17th Jan 2012 | Religion & Spirituality
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Some people believe that the Bible is a reliable book of prophecy. Others feel that it contains vague predictions that could be interpreted in many different ways. What's your opinion? And it would be appreciated if those answering did so in a serious and respectable way - unlike some previous comments I have noted in other threads. Thank you.
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It is no more than a story book designed to give power over the masses.

It appears it was highly successful in many quarters because many people actually believed these stories.

We call these days "The Dark Ages"
No one can't tell the future anything. You can try until you're blue in the face, but does it listen ? No !
The bible is no more an accurate predictor of the future than any other publication. And until we know the true nature of time it is difficult to say if such an ability is possible anyway.
There is no evidence whatsoever for the "prophecies" of the Bible predicting anything.

The supposed fulfilment of the prophecies of the Old Testament by the events described in the New Testament is entirely because the New Testament is a complete work of fiction written expressly to reinforce religious power.

There is not a single piece of evidence that suggests Jesus Christ was any more real than JK Rowling's Harry Potter.
Tell us in a serious and respectable way what you mean by 'prophecy' and you might get some serious answers.
It's very easy to claim the fulfilment of 'prophecy' if you use alleged prophecies as the basis of subsequent writings. For examples see the New Testament.
Of course the bible can tell the future we all know the messiah came back after 1,000 oh I mean 2,000 or maybe 3,000 years or depending on interpretation every 2nd Tuesday of any month with a Monday in it.

No hang on the world ended as prophesied in the bible. I remember armaggedon well or do I my memory isn't what it was.

Why only last year the world ended in March no hang on October anyway the bible is never wrong. Now what can I cut and paste to prove it.
For beso: an interesting question adapted from Robert Heinlein. Which is more real, Harry Potter or J K Rowling?
Many aspects of the future may be predicted with confidence and accuracy. The sun will surely rise tomorrow, the M25 will be clogged with traffic, I will drive Mrs McM to the station.
I think sometimes it is possible to interpret some of the prophetic stories in the book of Reeelation,as happening in our times.ie wars and rumours of wars...so there could be a measure of truth in it??????Lets wait and see!
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Which particular part of history didn't have wars or rumors of wars?
I think that the Bible is interpreted in so many ways, so whose to say what is right, the same as what religion is the correct one.
We were taught certain ways at school from the Bible, but Jehovahs Witnesses say they read between the lines and that it can mean something totally different
Alot of the predictions are quite specific, which means they've had to be reinterpreted as allegorical or symbolic by modern theologians as they're clearly too absurd to be taken literally.

In other words, the church has built vagueness into it where there isn't any, because it allows for constant reinterpretation to suit whatever they think it should mean currently.
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I tend to agree with you here!...I was merely trying to suggest that if you want to see truths then you will........with a bit of wait and see.
Just looked up some interesting stats on Earthquakes...again, biblically predicted to increase in the ''end times''...I quote:
One stunning indication of the soon return of Jesus, is the increase in frequency and severity of Natural Disasters: Major catastrophic earthquakes are increasing in frequency and severity at an alarming rate:

From 526 to 1811, a period of 1,285 years, there were only 17 major earthquakes.

From 1822 to 1994, a period of just 172 years, there were 78 major earthquakes.

This is a 500 percent increase in frequency of major quakes in just the last 172 years.

From 1960 to 1994, in just a 34 year period of time, there were 50 major catastrophic earthquakes.

This means that more than 50% of every catastrophic earthquake in history have occurred in just the last 34 years.

I add I am not advocating anything...just sharing a small opinion!
I hope jesus never gets here 'cos i've had it with all these earthquakes.
I've led a very uneventful life. Too seldom has the earth moved for me.
I can confidently predict the future.....eventually we will all run out of breath!
if you talk about the events of history in such a way that they might happen again, then there is always a possibility that you oculd be right occassionally. thats not prophecising thats just educated guesses for the future based on historical knowledge.

nostradamus did nothing more than that and people still interpret his tuff to fit their mood.
@Mymom.

I would hesitate to call them even vague predictions. Its just stuff that "true believers" manipulate in an attempt to prove the alleged prophetic power of the big magic book of verse - And you can find enthusiastic proponents of such fairy tale thinking in all the major religions, the most recently active it would seem subjectively being the more zealous muslims, most notably trying to prove that the koran knew foreshadowed all modern science and medicine - but none have ever been empirically proven.

Oh, and just because you dislike or disagree with a post/ answer, that does not automatically mean such a post is, objectively speaking, either frivolous or disrespectful -thats just your interpretation. And you do not get to frame the type of answers you get - you post a question, you get whatever answer people feel like giving - frivolous, considered, irreverent or whatever - thats what free speech is all about. What you are trying to do amounts to pre-emptive attempt at censorship - to curtail such speech, and thats not within your control, thankfully.

If you do not like the responses, you have the power to report them, if you feel there are sufficient grounds to do so. You do not get to tell people how to respond.
Ah! Lazy Gun. Haven't read such an eloquent defence of free speech since Milton's Areopagitica

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