(June 11, 2024 at 6:09 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(June 11, 2024 at 5:23 pm)Questor Wrote: I don't know, but some people are quite entranced by the idea.
I believe the point being made was that the liklihood of prophecy being accurate was akin to that of a horoscope being accurate.
I might check your horoscope, if I knew how to do so, but how would I ever discern its accuracy? It would be about your personal life, and how you subjectively saw it to apply to you.
Prophecy being specifically targeted to the history of a well-tracked group of people allows each prophecy to be checked objectively.
Tell us about Damascus, Egypt, and Tyre. All failed prophecies.
Boru
As history is still in the process of being made, one cannot say that a particular prophecy has failed, as there are no expiration dates attached to them.
Many prophecies are as yet unfulfilled, but that does not invalidate them.
What one can do is note the prophecies that have been fulfilled as the hard proof that there is a G-d, and that he is interested enough in our future to tell us about it.
