The Bible and its Prophecies...

Recently I was reading about the so called 'prophecies of the Bible'. The text talked about how the Bible predicts things. Some of which have come true and some are yet to come true.

It got me thinking about how we use religious texts. We use them mostly to push our own ideas. We interpret them in our own way and use them as a basis for spreading our own idealogy and proving or disproving theories. From justification of violence to creating false hope.

I think all religious texts tell us how to live. They are good for the here and now… they were good when they were written, they are good now, and shall remain so in the future.

The main reason for this is: these texts were written by humans for humans. The essential human nature has not changed. We still do many of the same things that we did back then. The method might have changed but the act hasn’t.

We still get up, go to work, come back home, sleep, eat, make love, produce babies and so on.
Our core emotions are still the same. We still love, hate, get embarrassed, get jealous etc.

What made us human back in the days of the Bible (or any other religious text) makes us human even today (and hopefully shall continue to make us human in the future!)

Therefore one should accept the Bible and OTHER religious texts not because they help us in prediction but because they help us understand ourselves.

The interpretive analysis of the Bible and connecting it with prophecies can be done with any religious text. But we should remember this, when we interpret something as complex as the Bible (or for that matter The Gita, The Ramayana, The Quran, The Torah etc.), we do end up putting our own knowledge and beliefs in the interpretation. No interpretation can be purely objective.

Therefore just accept the religious texts as a window into your soul and nature. Not as a guide to what is going to happen tomorrow.

Why?

Because your tomorrow, is largely in your hands!