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Re:Young people are flocking to astrology by ndsipa_pomu on Monday July 24, 2023 @08:02AM (#36846509)
The problem with a lot of historical predictions is that they were too vague to be useful i.e. could someone armed with a bible have known enough about an invasion of Tyre to make a bet with someone before it happened? e.g. I bet they get invaded in the next two weeks.

Predictions of that nature are usually just re-interpretations based on knowledge after the fact.

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Re:Young people are flocking to astrology by baremetal on Monday July 24, 2023 @10:23AM (#36848473)
Israel was recreated in one day. As prophesied.

"Who has ever heard of such things? Who has ever seen things like this? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment? Yet no sooner is Zion in labor than she gives birth to her children." Isaiah 66:8

On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. U.S. President Harry S. Truman recognized the new nation on the same day.[1]

[1] https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/creation-isra...

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Re:Young people are flocking to astrology by ndsipa_pomu on Monday July 24, 2023 @10:38AM (#36848769)
A prophecy is different to a concrete prediction.

People in the 1930s weren't able to use the bible to predict that Israel would be created in a day in the next 20 years. There's also the doubt over how long a "day" is in the bible, so it seems more a case of it only being a prediction in hindsight.

There's a better critique here: https://www.psephizo.com/biblical-studies/does-the-state-of-...

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Re:Young people are flocking to astrology by WorldMaker on Monday July 24, 2023 @01:54PM (#36851789)
This prophecy also has a self-fulfilling prophecy nature to it, because plenty of groups in America (alone) had good and (maybe mostly) terrible reasons to follow the prophecy "like a blueprint".
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Re:Young people are flocking to astrology by empyrrhicist on Monday July 24, 2023 @01:41PM (#36851620)
And yet,

Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled....

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