(May 17, 2020 at 1:16 pm)possibletarian Wrote: The thing about prophecies is that surely they would use language that people living in the time they were fulfilled would understand, surely a god could inspire such things ?
For instance if it was meant to portray skyscrapers why not ''magnificent buildings ~that reached high in the sky''
Of what use is such vagueness to anyone ?
There is no such thing as "prophecy" of any kind of any religion.
It works backwards, just like seeing shapes in the clouds. If you want to take ambiguous language after the fact and retrofit it to suit a current event you will.
I may have mentioned it in this same thread already, but even in the polytheism of ancient Egypt, Rome, and Greece, they had people back then claiming to see into the past and future. It is all simply pulling shit out of your ass and seeing what you want to see.
Real predictions are made through science, not superstition.
When a theist/conspiracy theorist calimes "The end times will come", they are basing it on superstition.
When scientists say, "Life will end on our planet", they are basing that on scientific observations about the history of our planet, mass extinction events, the age of our planet, but especially our sun, which will expand and fry our planet billions of years from now.
