(October 9, 2013 at 5:13 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: There are some deadly accurate predictions of the coming of the Messiah in the Old Testament as well. Reasonably accurate anyway it wasn't quite 100% but it could have been the Jews who were getting a few details wrong. Jesus predicted the destruction of the Jewish Temple which happened in 70 AD so that's a good bit of prediction there if you're into that sort of thing.
Yeah... no. To see why this is wide of the mark, look at the prophecy mentioned in The Phantom Menace, of "the one who will bring balance to the Force". Kenobi said that Anakin was "supposed to destroy the Sith, not join them"; and sure enough, a couple of decades later in the timeline - spolier alert - Darth Vader (née Anakin Skywalker) does just that.
There you go - deadly accurate fulfilled prophecy. Except there's a revealing flaw in there, if you know where to look.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
