What are the religious prophesies regarding the use of electricity and...

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Gerome W

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...electronics anyway? People here-say constantly about the 'big end' and what not, how religion has so perfectly predicted this society we live in. I have yet to hear a peep about electricity.

Is there anything written in the Bible about this. You would think that the electronic revolution would be predicted, this is defiantly the shaping force here, electronics and the level of computing, so where's the predictions about the internet and electronic computing, do they even exist?
And yes I am 100% serious, I don't wan't a bunch of, get a grip, you are crazy, this hopefully may spark some dialogue, I really am curious, nobody I know of has addressed this in R&S.
I know that most is hopeful wishing and drawing straws. But you would think that something so powerful, that being the home computer, would get a mention, somewhere.
 
Prophesy is not future prediction it is retrospective - someone reads something written a while ago, applies it to an event that came after then calls it a prophesy.

Man has not yet come up with written material that he can apply to electricity or technology.

When he does he will publish this 'prophesy'. **shrug**
 
I think the Jews address it,there are restrictions in its use during some holidays
 
Jules Verne had a lot of prophecies that came true.

Maybe you're reading the wrong religious books! Or at least, treating the wrong books as inspired by a divine being...
 
Jules Verne had a lot of prophecies that came true.

Maybe you're reading the wrong religious books! Or at least, treating the wrong books as inspired by a divine being...
 
Daniel 12:4
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

This passage foretells of a time when travel will be greatly expanded..."many shall run to and fro"... and that knowledge will greatly "increase"...pretty much sounds like our computer age and travel in the jet age. Our generation is the only one in history that can point to these prophecies as coming true.
 
Nobody has addressed it because biblical prophecies don't describe our society.

Christians have been living in end times for 2000 years - every generation has reinterpreted the prophecies to suit the events of their own time. That they never seem to realise that they weren't wrong because they interpreted incorrectly but because Jesus ain't coming back is the truly remarkable thing.
 
there aren't any religious prophecies that I know of

however, there is speculation that electricity was known in antiquity...

The Baghdad Battery, sometimes referred to as the Parthian Battery, is the common name for a number of artifacts created in Mesopotamia, possibly during the Parthian or Sassanid period (the early centuries AD). These jars were probably discovered in 1936 in the village of Khuyut Rabbou'a, near Baghdad, Iraq. These artifacts came to wider attention in 1938 when Wilhelm König, the German director of the National Museum of Iraq, found the objects in the museum's collections. In 1940 König published a paper speculating that they may have been galvanic cells, perhaps used for electroplating gold onto silver objects
 
There is nothing in the bible outside the social confines of the age it was written in. Oh you can attempt to interpret Revelation as this that and the other, but lets face it, most people on a bad acid trip see freakier stuff and they don't all attempt to establish themselves as prophets. I think there's almost as many official interpretations of the contents of Revelation as there are Christian sects.

The bible appears entirely ignorant of the world was is ahead. The monumental reorganisation of society from the industrial revolution makes the ancient societies remote and seemingly backward.

Yet somehow as the world advances to new levels, the more some Christians entrench themselves in outmoded mindsets. It's interesting but no surprise that modern society is born of that greatest of all human inventions - the city, whilst religious tradition has its heart in rural communities.
In an age of particle accelerators and space travel, socialism and emancipation, genetics and medical science, institutional rationality and secularism - many still cling to patriarchy, conservatism, intolerance, superstition and manifest destiny. These 2 worlds are growing ever further apart and its surprising that biblical prediction is supposed to illustrate this too, but I'm yet to see an unambiguous verse about it.

What seemed to take the 20th century by surprise was not the rise of the machine, but the size of it. No one really foresaw that technology would instead of being monster engines and big tech, would instead by worn on our wrists and kept in our pockets. So for those writing thousands of years ago, they didn't have a cat in hell's chance of being correct in prediction!!
 
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