In my opinion, any publicly-announced prophesy that is within the ability of humans to fulfill must be regarded as suspect and cannot be used as evidence of supernatural intervention.
An example: In the year 2008, someone announces "The god Blort has told me that the city of Grumsh has sinned and will be destroyed." Several hundred years later, the city burns due to general warfare in the area. Divine prophesy? I don't think so. If not a self-fulfilling prophesy (that is, an army of Blortists deliberately targeting the city to fulfill the prophesy), it was an event with a good probability of happening eventually. |