Entries Tagged as 'Prophecy'

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Why aren’t we responding to the environmental crisis with the urgency it demands?

Have you ever wondered why we as a people are so unresponsive to the environmental crisis? Given the magnitude of the dangers, it seems counter-intuitive that most people would be so blasé. Perhaps the key to understanding this is to focus less on what people say they think and more on the constructs that underlie [...]

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

The sign of a first-class prophet is that none of the prophecies come true.

Huh?

It seems the opposite—that what makes a prophet first class is that all of the prophecies come true. Even skeptics who deny the possibility of prophecy will admit this. They would say prophets, like unicorns, can be described with certainty (white, horse-like, and having a single horn), but a description, however detailed, does not [...]