RE: Prophecy doesn't make sense
March 5, 2021 at 9:06 am
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2021 at 9:09 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 4, 2021 at 3:32 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I see the prophecies as sort of like horoscopes. Most are vague enough that you can make them fit with enough mental gymnastics.
That wouldn't have been required in their own time. When a prophet said that god will strike down a country unless they shape up immediately, they needed only point in the direction of troops massed on two borders. Tragedy was immanent. This behavior would persist and continue all throughout christendom (and time) to this very day.
It's certainly the case that people treat them as horoscopes, today, but that has more to do with those people who believe that the words are magic than it does with what the prophecies referred to.
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