Irreversiblity of time...?
Terry errancy@infidels.org
Sun, 30 May 1999 23:51:59 -0500 (00928144319, 01beab21$511d55a0$5499c1cf@terry.bluebonnet.net)
>The Bible is full of prophecies that were fulfilled within Biblical time
.
>A prophecy could deceptively be authored into an earlier scripture after
>the event has happened, so this doesn't offer any proof of transcendence
to
>the modern day skeptic.
>
>In 1988 a calculation was discovered in the Bible that accurately
foretold
>the exact year of 1948 for the Independence of Israel over 2,500 years
>after the prophecy was made. The prophet Jeremiah around 600 BC predicted
>that because the Jews were turning away from God to idol worship and
other
>Gods he would punish them for 70 years under Babylonian captivity (see:
>Jeremiah 25:11). It has been historically documented that this did indeed
>take place, but again this prophecy could have been written in the Bible
>after the 70 years were fulfilled.
TILL
So it turns out that Jason's amazing prophecy fulfillment is just a
rehashing of Grant Jeffrey's argument in *The Signature of God." This is
old hat, and it was previously posted on both Adan's newsgroup and the
errancy list. I will be forwarding to the list the replies that I posted
to
this amazing "prophecy." Those who were on the list may remember that
these
replies sent the prophecy-fulfillment proponent running for cover. He
dropped the issue like a hot potato, and I suspect that Jason will do the
same.
Thomason, who raised the issue on Adan's newsgroup, headed for the hills
too. He never replied to my rebuttals.
TERRY
Now this is going to be interesting. I have read some of the things in
this book, The Signature of God, some of the things I find intriguing,
others I have problems with.