Bible Prophecies

[Theland]

The Bible is full of prophecies, and those dealing with the end times describe with uncanny accuracy events in our present day world.
This cannot be mere coincidence.
Ignoring it must be a choice to indulge a personal bias.

[SirOracle]

Naomi....Firstly i apologise for my tardiness in responding to your question regarding proof that St.John the Evangelist was present during the trial of Jesus.

Of course I cannot give you "proof" of something that occurred some two thousand years ago,as I was not present at that time. I take my belief from the Gospel of St. John which is a pretty full account of the happenings around that time.

Therein is the difference between you who needs proof and myself who has faith.We are all different and I certainly have no wish to try to convert you to my way of thinking. ( I sometimes have problems keeping myself on the path that I have chosen.)

Unlike others on this site I rarely enter religious discussions and only do so when I feel that wild and inaccurate statements are being entered,which I have to try to correct. This last comment is not directed at you or your atheistic views,but is more often directed at the so called religious posters who post absolute rubbish,and who I am sure chase people away from belief. They are doing your job for you,and I am sure we all know to whom I am referring.

In closing I can really do no better Christ's words when He re-appeared again,in St.John 20:29. " Because thou hast seen me,thou hast believed. Blessed are they who have not seen,and yet believed "

[Jackdaw33]

Purely a matter of linguistics. The word 'prophesy' derives from the Greek verb 'prophemi' which means to speak forth. It does not automatically imply clairvoyance.

[Jackdaw33]

I must disagree with you there. If I tell you that something will happen if you don't do such and such, that is not necessarily clairvoyance, merely giving you the benefit of my own knowledge. Let me tell you a story.

A friend of mine, a priest, in his first year at university, saw on the notice board, " Dr x's lecture this afternoon on prophecy is postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. He wrote on the notice, "Should have seen that coming."

The next morning a note was slipped under his door which read, "Dear Mr y, if you care to attend my rearranged lecture you will find out why you are so terribly wrong."

[Jackdaw33]

Your knowledge of biblical times and the etymology and semantics associated therewith are clearly vastly greater than mine, so I bow to your superior knowledge and gracefully withdraw.

Can I ask you a personal question? Are you resident in the UK? I ask this only because you tend to post only in the wee small hours of the morning, when only insomniacs, burglars and prostitutes are active here. For the avoidance of doubt, I am in the first category.

[Hypognosis]

@SirOracle

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If you are looking for "certainty" Jomifl the last place that I would be looking would be Wiki.
//

Check the edit history on any contentious page. Have you seen how quickly vandalism is repaired?

Do you know how many thousand editors & contributors they have, not to mention how obsessive they all are at pruning out space-wasting entries (server storage is so cheap I have to wonder why this still happens, other than quality control).


//More "nutters"write articles in it than anyone else.//

If the typical prophet was just a bloke in the street, shouting the odds, what stopped them from being rated as "nutters" by passers-by? What convinced spectators that what came out of their mouths was from God and not just gubbins, from the inner workings of their own - possibly deranged - mind?

(Life of Brian has a sequence with street prophets, which I'm reminded of but I doubt anyone would think it worthy of a YouTube upload).

[naomi24]

SirOracle, .//Of course I cannot give you "proof" of something that occurred some two thousand years ago,

I didn’t ask for proof – simply where your information comes. There’s no evidence in the bible that John was with Jesus during the entire course of his trial (if, indeed it happened at all).

[Hypognosis]

@Birdie

Thanks. I needed that.

[jomifl]

One of them was right...