Should You Feel Embarrassed for Fulfilling Biblical Prophecy?

[viole]

In today's world, full of skeptics, especially the religious ones....

If you even admit fulfilling Biblical prophecy, most people's inclination is to ridicule you, and belittle you as another fraud, before ever assessing the info.

So fair enough in the grand scheme of things, if a person really did fulfill prophecy, they'd know from God it is real....

Yet should they feel embarrassed, and refrain from telling religious people, or do the complete opposite, and boldly state the reasons they've been sent?

If I were Satan, I would be extremely embarassed to be so stupid to fulfill that final prophecy....especially by knowing it in advance.

Ciao

- viole

 

[wizanda]

What makes the case solid?

The Biblical text adding up, to what you've already been shown, in a very concise method.

Your hypothetical included assumptions that are unlikely to be true.

Which assumptions?

If you guys could tell us how to become a christ or a prophet then maybe we would listen.

A Christ (anointed one) or prophet is someone on cannabis holy anointing oil (Exodus 30:23-24 Kaneh-Bosem).

If I were Satan, I would be extremely embarassed to be so stupid to fulfill that final prophecy....especially by knowing it in advance.

Interesting take; so are you saying the only person left to turn up, is satan?

 

[viole]

Interesting take; so are you saying the only person left to turn up, is satan?

Imagine you are Satan . You read John's revelation (we can assume you can read) and how you are supposed to behave in order to make the prophecy, that will seal your fate, true.

Only an idiot will do exactly like what is written there.

That is probably why Jesus return is missing in action. He is ready, sword, killing eyes and all. Silly thing, Satan is not playing along, lol

Ciao

- viole

 

[A Vestigial Mote]

I would say that it shouldn't really matter what you feel, when you feel it, etc. If you truly are THE fulfill-er of a given prophecy, then isn't your prophetic success/failure/"outcome-in-general" already a guarantee?

 

[Desert Snake]

Nobody believes in this stuff anymore. Nobody. If you walked into church and said 'God has given me a prophecy that he will return in one year's time,' they'll just sort of put on their best middle-class smile and nod at you before heading toward the bar area.

There's a bar area in your church?

 

[A Vestigial Mote]

Silly thing, Satan is not playing along, lol

I was surprised this needed further explanation. I also felt myself feeling ashamed I'd never thought of it that way - haha. It's an excellent take/interpretation of the situation.

 

[A Vestigial Mote]

There's a bar area in your church?

It was a metaphor for those believers simply moving on with life and ignoring the person/thing putting them in the uncomfortable position of actually having to believe. Though I am quite sure you already knew that without my help...

 

[columbus]

If you even admit fulfilling Biblical prophecy, most people's inclination is to ridicule you, and belittle you as another fraud, before ever assessing the info.

If someone made such an extraordinary claim my first question would be, "Are they mentally ill, on drugs, or both?" Until I had a solid "No" to that mundane question there would be no point to assessing the claim itself. I know that there is an enormous number of people with similar delusions. People are very poor judges of many things, especially themselves. And even more particularly when they frequently do drugs such as (for example) cannabis.
Tom

 

[Mycroft]

There's a bar area in your church?

I don't go to church. But yeah, a few of the 'modern' (read: white middle-class western) churches that I have visited have had bars.

 

[George-ananda]

if a person really did fulfill prophecy, they'd know from God it is real....

Yet should they feel embarrassed, and refrain from telling religious people, or do the complete opposite, and boldly state the reasons they've been sent?

They should proclaim it. But hopefully they provide evidence/reasons why we should believe them.

 

[psychoslice]

like the boy who cried wolf, who do you believe, you can make anything seem to fullfil whatever you want.

 

[Twilight Hue]

If you have the charisma, there will always still be some who follow, no matter how obvious your sham, and they will even drink your Kool-Aid.

Natures way of preserving the gene pool.

 

[Twilight Hue]

There's a bar area in your church?

Catholics call theirs, The Knights of Columbus.

 

[ThePainefulTruth]

Natures way of preserving the gene pool.

What, the Darwin Award principle?