RE: DNA Proves Existence of a Designer
October 30, 2018 at 11:36 pm
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2018 at 11:38 pm by Bucky Ball.)
(October 30, 2018 at 11:06 pm)CDF47 Wrote:(October 30, 2018 at 10:30 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: LOL.
You are not exactly a "technical" person. You don't even get the science of the flood.
Actually it isn't. You just never studied religions.
The role of a prophet was not to tell the future. This is the ignorance of Fundamentalism. Omen reading was forbidden.
You also know no basic chemistry. You see things that are not there, due to your complete ignorance.
You can repeat this shit until kingdom come, it won't be true then either. It's nonsense. Nothing but rubbish.
That's your opinion.
The prophet predicted the future at times when interpreting dreams and visions. Jesus was predicted. The Book of Daniel has much prophecy in it about future kingdoms using symbolic language. It is really interesting and cool to read and understand the prophecies.
Unfortunately for you, it's what students in Bible 101 learn.
"Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft".
Your "prophesy is omen reading. It was an abomination.
You are nothing but one of many (dime a dozen) amateur Christian charlatans posting here, who know absolutely nothing about the subject you pretend to speak on. Go get yourself an education.
The ancient role of a prophet in Hebrew culture was to interpret the words or will of their god to the people OF THEIR OWN DAY. NOT to predict the future. (That's Hollywood's idea of the role of a prophet).
So you often hear fundies talking about "prophesy", and how various prophesies were a 'foretelling", or prediction of the future, and indeed they count them up as "proof" that Jebus or whatever HAS to be true, as the "prophecy" came true.
In fact Leviticus forbade fortune telling and divination, so we know it was an abomination to even think in these terms for many/most centuries in Hebrew culture. However, with the rise of Apocalypticism, around the turn of the millennium, this changed somewhat, and is evidenced in many Christian writings, including the gospels, as they adopted the notions absent in ancient Israel, but coming into popular view with the Essenes. In terms of Hebrew culture, and the "telling of or prediction of" the future, was unknown, and forbidden, and not at ALL a view of the major prophets themselves. However in the the new view, certain "hidden meanings" or "pesherim" began to be looked for, in the practice of Midrash. The name for this is called "pesher", (or seeking a "hidden meaning"), which was not even known to the original speaker/writer, but only "revealed" later
to certain believers. Originally, the (plural) "pesherim" were only fully revealed to the Son of Righteousness, (the leader of the Essenes), and the idea was first found and fully understood after scholars read the Dead Sea scrolls, and was a sub category of "Midrash", (or study of the texts).
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsou...15650.html
Thus we see that "prophesy" as fortune telling as began to be practiced in Judaism around the First Century, (and picked up by Christians and the gospel writers), really was a very late invention and never a classical part of Hebrew scripture, or understanding, either interpretation, or intention, and certainly was not the function of the ancient office of "prophet", in Hebrew culture, who was to be a "mouthpiece" to the people of their own day, and not Madame Zelda with her crystal ball.
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Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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