Published: 15 FEB 2011
I watched a movie recently called “Knowing”, in which a fifth grader(?), places a piece of paper, covered with rows of numbers, in the school’s time capsule in 1959. When fifty years later the capsule opened, another fifth grader receives the sealed envelope with the paper inside. It is learned that this paper’s numbers are dates, locations and number of dead since 1959. This paper is discussed with science scholars, where every set of numbers turned out to be TRUE.
Here is what I find to be interesting about the movie. No matter how strong the evidence is that the prophesies came true and that others are to come true soon, individual acceptance by most people is not acceptable. Or, stated in another manner, most people really do not want to know that we are not actually in control of the world, nor that out choices and actions are already known before we are born. We still must chose and perform, because we effect other people and their choices and actions. (By G-D)
This leads to an argument regarding “Free Will” for which most evidence used to argue for Free Will are man made. See[url] http://truthintorah.blogspot.com/2010/08/free-will-what-is-it.html[/url].
This leads me to those that want to know. The Tanach(Old Testament), containing the Writings of Moses(Torah) and the Prophets, included there is a significant number of statements by G-D or “In His Name”, regarding promises and things to come, good and bad. In there we are presented with statements about what IS from G-D’s prospective, and prophesy from our point of view. For 4,500 years those statements have become facts(accepted truths about events), which should indicate that science, which is evidence based process for describing that which we have seen and think we understand, should accept –but don’t.
I am working on a database to learn which “Prophesies” are yet to be accomplished, and to identify the evidence of those that have been fulfilled, –from our prospective. Maybe there is enough time left to learn this information, however, based on our history, I must accept that for most people it will not be see as anything for consideration.
Isaiah 6:9 And He said: ‘Go, and tell this people: hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not 10) Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they, seeing with their eyes, and hearing with their ears, and understanding with their heart, return, and be healed.’
Shalom