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On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:08:19 GMT, Linda Fox <linda.ff@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

>On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:01:15 -0500, Antares 531
><gordonlrDELETE@swbell.net> wrote:
>
>>Fulfillment of prophecies is the most convincing "evidence" for the
>>reliability of the Bible
>
>Gordon, if you'd lived in the UK in the early 90s (I think it was)
>you'd be acquainted with Mystic Meg, who used to coo her "predictions"
>just before the weekly draw for the National Lottery, usually
>finishing with "and some printers, cosmetic salesmen and zookeepers
>wil be lucky tooooooooo"
>
>Statistically some of them must have been fulfilled.
>
>And what about Nostradamus, then?
>
>Linda ff
>
Linda, I've never lived in the UK. I've visited a few times, but only
for short tourism or business related visits. I really don't know much
about the culture there. I'm from Oklahoma, U.S.A., and, although I've
traveled all over the globe, I am more comfortable here than any place
I've visited. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. 

I quite agree, prophesying, or predicting the future, is not limited
to the Biblical prophets, but the fact that they made so many
prophetic statements and were right in them, even though the event
didn't happen for a very long time, is what impresses me.

I can, for example, predict the weather, and hit it some times, but I
do miss more than I hit unless I narrow my predictions down to
something more general...like, it's going to be hot next week. Well,
sure, this is mid summer, and it very likely will be hot some of the
time next week. 

And, carrying this over to religious prophesying, I could prophesy
that Jesus isn't going to return tomorrow, and I'd probably be right.
This isn't what I'm referring to when I use the term "prophecy."

Gordon