Since when is truth determined by vote? Either someone had foreknowledge or they didn't. The method of testing this is both obvious and scientific.
But how do we determine whether they had foreknowledge? And how do we determine what is actually being predicted? Many prophecies I've read tend to be vague or ambiguous in their wording, which leaves people free to read what they want into them.
I linked to this page earlier but I will link to it again here:
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CH/CH110.htmlBecause it does highlight several reasons why an objective reader of the Bible might not immediately believe that the prophecies therein are all unfailingly true.
Would you like to tell us what your own scientific method of investigating the prophecies is?
And why is the same standard of inerrancy not applied to other religious and non-religious prophecies?
Applied by whom? Nobody's stopping you from applying it, are they?
So all prophecies across the world are true too? No? Just the Biblical ones? If that is what you claim, then why, unless you have also investigated all these other prophecies too?
Your first. What is your system?
See above. Mordred made some good points too, such as guesswork and inevitability, just a few posts ago.
If one chooses to follow the procedures recommended in the bible, a single miss is all it takes to falsify a claim that an individual is/was a prophet.
Studying a prophecy isn't the same as studying a rock. You don't think someone might get this prediction business wrong once in a while? Maybe the hotline to the source of the prediction wasn't working too well that day?
I'd also be interested in a clarification of whether you think the alleged inerrancy of Biblical prophecies is an indicator of the inerrancy of the Bible, including the literal Genesis creation. If you don't, then there's not much point in pursuing this discussion here.
