Fakes profecies are related to the question of the topic.
Ezequiel 38- 39 its look a motivational speech from a general of the army , who want revenge.
Check out the context of ezekiel in thoses years.
You can fit the prophecy in differents momments. Present , past or future.
The hebrew bible is a brainwash and motivational speach to jews. And, about the jewish religion.. they took symbols , myths and knowledge from paganism religions.
Somes prophecies are engeneered: like the recovery of the lands in israel.
Anothers prophecies are harder turn into reality. Maybe in the future.
Somes prophets speak with the true, anothers are just liers.
The good thing about prophecies , is everything could change in any momment... So a prophecy could change. Is the power of the mind.
I find what you are saying interesting even while I disagree with you. The Bible is more-or-less an investigation of vice and virtue than a motivational speech. We look at the vices and virtues of Israel. Sometimes these vices are judged from the perspective of a higher court and this usually includes a judgment, which is also called prophecy sometimes. Prophecy and judgment are often interchangeable.
As a Christian myself I would say that the Bible is transformative and unique. I personally had an experience of being born again that probably sounds as believable as many NDE's sound to most people. I could summarize this experience by saying that it was like shaking a champagne bottle that projected glitter in the air when it was opened causing me to look up. When I looked up, I could see God and a rainbow in the sky to his right and I have been able to see God this way ever since. This vision of God has also never hurt me, lied to me, tricked me, laughed at me, or left me. So I cannot agree with you and simply say the prophecies are fake.
However, I do believe they are oppressed and I am wondering whether you might agree that this idea has some potential. Basically, in this world, there are a lot of pieces missing. Living life as a Christian is a lot like walking on a road that is somewhat littered with potholes. When people step into these potholes, each person comes up with their own explanations for them. So that this oppression represents an absence of information that is often replaced by whatever the person experiencing this deficit wants.
Some people want to believe there is more comfort provided in being a Christian so they will deny that there is any reason to question not being to understand things at times. Some people think it is a reason to not continue the investigation. For example, I assume that you are referring to the Old Testament alone, but I think one of the biggest potholes is that there is no evidence that people can be healed from paralysis. So it either didn't happen or something is oppressed, and I would consider this to be a major pothole.
So I guess I would like to know more about your conclusions towards what you are saying or what investigations have you pursued to form these conclusions. Like, where or when did you step in a pothole metaphorically?
Edit to add a question to try to be a little more clear. Like when you say some prophecies are hard to engineer into reality, does this cause you to believe that the prophecy is fake or is there anything else contributing to this opinion? Is it possible to consider this a pothole or a place where we are oppressed in our understanding because it can be seen from two perspectives and there is no real way to say whether or not the prophecy is true, even if we can see there is an attempt to engineer them?
Also, what is an example of something that you would consider a true prophecy and how do you think fake prophecies relate to the question of the topic?
