Mysteries of the Bible

I was watching this program on TV called Mysteries of the Bible. It was about the last book of the bible,Revelation,and what everyone thinks about it. Revelation mentions visions that John saw,and many say that these visions will come true in our day. Visions of the beast or the wild beast,wars in Israel,great destruction,Armageddon,and all kinds of others. Some are trying to figure out if Revelation is describing the real "doomsday" for mankind,or if it's just visions of history. Now I know we have some people here who don't believe in the bible,but you do know that some prophecies/visions did come true right? Were they just coincidences?

Were they just coincidences?dog64

[QUOTE="dog64"]Were they just coincidences?HupHupOranje

How could that be? How can some mere man write this stuff down,and it comes true by coincidence?

I don't think some fruitcake from the Bible can predict the end of the world. I'd be more likely to trust an intoxicated deer's insight in the end of the world personallycjek

We'll find out how the world will end when we get there. No need to worry about it until the time comes, because no matter what we do or how much we try to guess/predict it will still be the end of the world :shock:double_decker

[QUOTE="dog64"]Were they just coincidences?HupHupOranje

Either that or they're open to wide interpretation. After all, no one ever comes up with specific prohecies like "A guy named David Murphy will be born in the year 1977. He'll have blond hair, blue eyes, and a triangular birthmark on his left forearm. He will single handedly issue in one-thousand years of chaos by telling the dirtiest joke in the world at a very inappropriate time."

Now that's a prophesy. Not, "Nations will war sometime in the future in this general area."

How could that be? How can some mere man write this stuff down,and it comes true by coincidence?

dog64

It's called ambiguity.

"Oh my! In the future! A great conflagration! War and atrocities all throughout the world!"

I have predicted what will happen in the future.

"...by telling the dirtiest joke in the world at a very inappropriate time."

Schwah

Coincidences is my best guess...although Friedrich Nietzsche and the Mayans predicted the great wars of the last century...bastards12345

Yeah,and I think some reverend predicts a terrorist attack in the US this year. He thinks that God told him that.

~-~We won't even have time to say, "I was right.":P~-~

The_PirateKing

:lol: Most likely not, but if you did have time, you probably wouldn;t have any time to get any satisfaction of being right:P

The Bible is a joke and should be judged and critiqued as so.FinneyCalc

The Bible is a joke and should be judged and critiqued as so.FinneyCalc

That was kind of disrespectful...but I kinda agree.

i've heard that they were not prophecies rather commentary on the author's current situation... written in a sort of code to avoid further persecutions by the roman empire... comp_atkins

Yeah,I have heard of something called "The Bible Code". It mentions many things that may happen in the future.

[QUOTE="comp_atkins"]i've heard that they were not prophecies rather commentary on the author's current situation... written in a sort of code to avoid further persecutions by the roman empire... dog64

Yeah,I have heard of something called "The Bible Code". It mentions many things that may happen in the future.