Originally posted by Nazgulinthedark
the history channel said that some ancient people that lived in souh america said that a asteroid was going to hit earth in the winter soltice of 2012 😐 but i dont beleive them
Like I said an asteroid will eventually hit the earth but no one knows for sure if it will be in 2012. I'm not going to defend it or anything but I also heard that the Mayan Calendar is suppose to end in December 2012.
yes i'm doing ancient history at school at the moment and the ancient south americans were incredibly advanced in astronmy and mathematics and they predicted solar eclispses into the future which were corect and they said something about the end of the fifth(?) sun due to fire on solctice(dec. 21st) in 2012. the end of the fourth sun was by water and its intresting to note that all ancient cultures make reference to a massive flood... i dont believe in the bible thing at all but its just striked me as curious.**que X files music lol**
Originally posted by TheFilmProphet
How can you be sure have you revised every single prediction made by every single person in the world?
There is no need for me to do that. The odd chance that someone may have made an accurate prediction doesn't mean anyone can do so at will.
Tell me - who has made accurate predictions more interesting than "I foresee I will eat today"?
Originally posted by zeus_suez
yes i'm doing ancient history at school at the moment and the ancient south americans were incredibly advanced in astronmy and mathematics and they predicted solar eclispses into the future which were corect and they said something about the end of the fifth(?) sun due to fire on solctice(dec. 21st) in 2012. the end of the fourth sun was by water and its intresting to note that all ancient cultures make reference to a massive flood... i dont believe in the bible thing at all but its just striked me as curious.**que X files music lol**
True or false it is still interesting.
The Omega:
"No one has ever - precisely and accurately - predicted a damn thing."
Here is one prediction from the bible about the magnificent city of Babylon, perhaps the greatest city in ancient times.
The walls were fourteen or fifteen miles long. It consisted of 196 square miles. They had their own alphabet, worked out the problems of arithmatic, invented implements for measuring time, and advanced beyond all previous peoples in science, Yet God said of babylon when it was the greatest city in the world: "Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when god overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah" (Isaiah 13:19).
The historian Herodotus tells us that these walls had towers that extended obove the 200 foot walls to a height of 300 feet. The walls were 187 feet thick at the base and enclosed an area of 196 square miles. The city of Babylon was impregnable. But God said of those towers and that city: "The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken...It shall be desolate forever" (Jeremiah 51:58, 62).
The great wall of China isnt nearly as large or as strong but it still stands today.
Major Keppel says, in the narrative of his travels, "We totally failed to discover and trace of the city walls." The walls of Babylon were destroyed but only gradually. The prophet couldnt have possibly have written his prediction after the event, because the fufillment of the prophecy was not completed until after the time of Christ. The Old Testament had been translated into Greek 500 years before.
In the 4rth century A.D. Julian The Apostate came to the throne of Rome. His one overwhelming desire was to destroy Christianity and reestablish the pagan religions of Rome. While engaged in a war with the Persians near the remains of Babylon, Julian completly destroyed the remnants of the wall of Babylon, lest it afford any protection in the future for the Persian army.Thus the prophecy was brought to fulfillment by one of Scriptures greatest antagonists of all time.
to be continued-
But God had much more to say about this city: "Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate....It shall be no more inhabited for ever" (Jeremiah 50:13, 39). Can anything be more specific than that.
I have seen pictures of Babylon, it is a trackless waste of huge mounds and heaps inhabited only by the jackal, the viper, and the scorpion. Skeptics themselves have described it as nothing but heaps; they tell us that ruins compose the only remains of Babylon. Ruins like thos of Babylon, composed of heaps of rubbish impregnated with niter, cannot be cultivated. Babylon whos fields around the city were so fertile that Herodotus refused to write about them lest people think him insane, now can grow nothing because God has doomed the area to perpetual desolation, and not a blade of grass will survive. Its a barren desert. The ruins were nearly the only indication that it had been inhabited.
God said the city would not be built again, yet the mightiest man the world has ever seen, Alaxander The Great decided that he would rebuild Babylon. Coming across the ruins of Babylon, he determined to make this the capital of his worldwide empire. He issued six hundred thousandrations to his soldiers to rebuild the city of Babylon. Would God be disproved? History records the fact that immediately after making the declaration to rebuild Babylon, Alexander The Great was struck dead, and the whole enterprise was abandoned. For god said it would never be rebuilt again.
Interesting, but this has all been discussed before. Certain prophecies were supposed to come to pass years ago, but never did. Only when things happen do we see relevations and similiarities in phophecies. Besides the Bible is nothing more than a book with stolen stories from other cultures and ancient civilizations and writen for a easy to lure audience. Remember, true wisdom is listening and knowing what to believe, blindness is a follower without a mind to know what wisdom is.
Remember, the Bible was "translated" into English much much later than it was first created. With these "translations and conversions" to English and other languages, some words were left out and added.
I am a Catholic, and follow the Bible, but Califfornia was a made up place(word) by the Spanish when they came to the New World. I don't buy it.
Though California just had a 6.0 Earthquake, I pray noone died.
Damnit, I'm sick of everybody talking about the end of the World:
If an asteroid hits whenever, whatever, 'cause we'd all be dead. The earthquake thing is a crock of sh!t, seeing as I believe (as do many others), that many of these so called prophecies were written in the early 90's and such.
Plus, 'quakes hit California EVERY Goddamned year! Come on ppl, take a better look on life. A lot of prophecies I believe were just made up, to create unity, by some ppl, but it really hasn't happened.