Does Bible Prophecy Really Matter ?

by Blueblades 7 Replies latest jw friends

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  Blueblades

  What is the intent of Bible Prophecy? Is it to inform us or, is it's intent to change us?Do you read every Prophectic text in it's context?

  Outside of the WT.Society's failure to interpret Bible Prophecy,can you name a Prophecy that is having an impact on you right now causing information from that Prophecy to change you.

  Does Bible Prophecy Really Matter to you in the everyday things as we go on with our lives?

  Many persons have made life and death decisions based upon what they have come to believe about Bible Prophecy having an effect on their lives.

  Has this happened to you? And have you been disappointed because of it?

  Blueblades
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  Pleasuredome

  another good question would be 'where is the salvation in trying to understand bible prophecy?'
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  Farkel

  : Does Bible Prophecy Really Matter ?

  No.

  Farkel
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  Dansk

  Another good question would be: Is the Bible based on fact?

  Dansk
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  Introspection

  You know it's kind of funny because prophecies is or atleast can be seen as a kind of 'inside information' so to speak. Of course, in terms of what kind of person you're going to be it doesn't seem to matter to some people even in the face of death, so it is in spite of any idea of salvation rather than because of it. It reminds me of the bumper sticker which says: JESUS IS COMING - look busy.
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  metatron

  No, it doesn't - objectively.

  If you accept that humans have free will, then conditions can change and Bible prophecies can go unfufilled.

  It is utterly silly to make prophecies apply to Satan, for example, that would unfufilled if he simply refused to do

  anything at all! "I'm NOT going to attack ANYONE as Gog of Magog, period! ---- and I'm going to shower

  every Jehovah's Witness with wealth and perfect health and NO persecution!"

  Most of Ezekiel's prophecies went unfufilled - they never fished in the Dead Sea, didn't build the visionary temple with a river

  thru it, etc.

  metatron
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  RunningMan

  Ezekiel chapter 29 is particularly bad. It is prophesied that Egypt will be made desolate, no foot will step there for forty years. It also said Nebuchadnezzar would be the one to do it.

  I'm still waiting for God's infallible word to make good on this one.
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  Carmel

  Actually, I find biblical prophecy rather facinating once I left the cacoon of "christian exegisis". Too bad some take every thing in the text as literal. Doing so makes a mockery of logic and good science.

  caveman