RE: Isaiah 53, 700 B.C: Historical Evidence of the Divine Omniscience.
July 26, 2023 at 10:41 am
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2023 at 11:35 am by Bucky Ball.)
(July 26, 2023 at 9:59 am)GrandizerII Wrote:(July 26, 2023 at 6:26 am)Nishant Xavier Wrote: "The prophet office did not include foretelling future events"
Lolol, has to be the most hilarious things I've ever read.
The very definition of a Prophet is to foretell future events.
Nah, that may be the modern definition, but not the historical one. A prophet was supposed to be a spokesman for God, not a predictor of the future.
That's precisely his problem. He knows ONLY the current definitions and thinking about everything.
He has no clue what the historical realities were.
He constantly commits the historical error called "presentism". He has no clue what that is, as he is no scholar of anything.
"A prophet is not an oracle; a prophecy is not a prediction. Precisely because Judaism believes in free will, the human future can never be unfailingly predicted. People are capable of change. God forgives. As we say in our prayers on the High Holy Days: “Prayer, penitence, and charity avert the evil decree.” There is no decree that cannot be revoked. A prophet does not foretell. He warns. A prophet does not speak to predict future catastrophe but rather to avert it. If a prediction comes true it has succeeded. If a prophecy comes true it has failed.”
https://www.rabbisacks.org/quotes/prophe...rediction/
(On NOT predicting the future)
"This is no minor detail. It is a fundamental feature of Jewish spirituality. We believe that we cannot predict the future when it comes to human beings. We make the future by our choices. The script has not yet been written. The future is radically open."
https://www.rabbisacks.org/covenant-conv...he-future/
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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