The prophecy of John, aka Apocalypse, aka End of the World.

[o_O.Q]

ResidentToxy said:

o_O.Q said:
the verses become reality because the people that wrote it ( or maybe it really was a god ) had a profound understanding of human nature, they knew that at some point society would come to dismiss these core values and that chaos would come about as a result

Ah yes, the classic core values that we should adhere to, such as:

Deuteronomy 21:18-21King James Version (KJV)

18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
... And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Deut. 22:13-21

 

"If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then turns against her, 14 and charges her with shameful deeds and publicly defames her, and says, ‘I took this woman, but when I came near her, I did not find her a virgin,’ ... if this charge is true, that the girl was not found a virgin, 21 then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel, by playing the harlot in her father’s house; thus you shall purge the evil from among you."

 

Matthew 10:34

34Do not assume thatI have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. - Jesus

 

These are the core principles that society should follow. It doesn't matter if there is no evidence for any sort of deity, we should all follow the virtues of an archaic book written in the Middle East 2,000 years or so ago.

 

i don't believe the bible is supposed to be taken absolutely literally... i think that under proper interpretations the core values are beneficial for people to adhere to...

for example i believe the story with regards to adam and eve is the story of man evolving from primitive to modern man and the consequences of gaining self awareness

i don't think "the flood" was really about water levels rising and everything being physically destroyed besides an ark, but about what happens when societies become too corrupt

only dumb people would think that story is literally about a talking snake or really about a physical flood imo and even dumber people would dismiss it out of hand without further investigation to figure out what is actually being said and why it had such a profound impact on society...

 

but lets just watch and see where society goes to when the core values are thrown away and a relativistic mindset takes over

 

anyone who's looking objectively can already see that things are starting to unravel