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Originally Posted by Abel I have given Biblical prophecy that has been validated by secular history. |
As I said earlier in this thread, if a "prophesy" is within the means of humans to fulfill by their own deliberate actions, it is not a supernatural prediction of future events but a suggestion for someone to do whatever the "prophesy" requires.
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if you require scientific evidence then there is nothing I can do for you.
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Then I guess there's nothing you can do for us.
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When you stand before God at the Great White Throne Judgment...
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Argumentum ad baculum, a logical fallacy. No evidence that your god exists.
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I do quote scripture, and I will always quote scripture to support my stance.
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But that's just it, Abel --
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Now, scientifically prove to me that Jesus' prophecy concerning the Temple was not an actual prophecy.
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Building a temple, destroying it, turning the entrance to face south-by-southwest, or painting it bright pink with blue racing stripes are all things that humans are quite capable of doing without outside assistance. Furthermore, the specific words of this so-called prophesy might inspire various individuals to eventually perform the necessary actions to make it a reality. This makes it neither supernatural nor particularly prescient; therefore, it is not a prophesy. Q.E.D.
You might have a case if a prophesy had said something like 'In the year 2008 of the Common Era, a titanium-hulled spaceship from the Pleiades star system will deliver three fifty-kilogram bags of technologically advanced cat litter to Astreja's house in Winnipeg, teleporting the bags directly into the basement via a wormhole-producing tractor beam.'
And only if you could prove that no one with prior knowledge of the prophesy had actually placed an order for 330 pounds of cat litter... Because that would negate the prophetic nature of the event as well.
For the most part, prophesy has very little practical value. It seems to serve more as a rallying cry for believers rather than a
bona fide proof of a supernatural agent.
(checks basement for extraterrestrial cat litter, Just In Case)