What is prophecy?

Question

is prophecy a child?

is prophecy the devil?

is prophecy a kiss of love?

is prophecy a lie?

Answer 1

prophecy is nothing more than a prediction.

Answer 2

A prophecy is what the listener needs it to be. It can be hope, doom, false or true. In the end, the man looking to far ahead forgets to eat.

Answer 3

Prophecy is the arrogance to say things that will or will not happen in the future based upon the events of the past and of the present .

Answer 4

a prophecy is a prediction of the future. and a prophet is the person who sees the future

Answer 5

The cardinal religious ideas of incantation, inspiration, revelation, propitiation, repentance, atonement, intercession, sacrifice, prayer, confession, worship, survival after death, sacrament, ritual, ransom, salvation, redemption, covenant, uncleanness, purification, prophecy, original sin--they all go back to the early times of primordial ghost fear.

P.988 - §5 Ever and anon, true prophets and teachers arose to denounce and expose shamanism. Even the vanishing red man had such a prophet within the past hundred years, the Shawnee Tenskwatawa, who predicted the eclipse of the sun in 1808 and denounced the vices of the white man. Many true teachers have appeared among the various tribes and races all through the long ages of evolutionary history. And they will ever continue to appear to challenge the shamans or priests of any age who oppose general education and attempt to thwart scientific progress. http://www.urantia.org/papers/paper91.ht...