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To: agrace
According the writers she did. And of course, there was Cassandra, cursed by the gods to be able to tell the future, but have no one believe her.

The ancient world is rife with stories of people chatting with gods and predicting the future (and having the prophesy come true). However, whereas you would dismiss such claims from another religion, you accept them in yours.

321 posted on 05/25/2005 12:51:38 PM PDT by Junior (“Even if you are one-in-a-million, there are still 6,000 others just like you.”)
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To: Junior
Apples to oranges. Anyone could go to the oracle, like plugging quarters into a machine, or paying the local psychic to tell your fortune. The Bible is completely different as its prophets were not at all as such. Also, from what I've read, the oracle was hardly absolute in its foretelling. From the following link -

Arguments over the correct interpretation of an oracle were common, but the oracle was always happy to give another prophecy if more gold was provided. A good example is the famous incident before the Battle of Salamis when the Pythia first predicted doom and later predicted that a 'wooden wall' (interpreted by the Athenians to mean their ships) would save them.

That kills her success rate right there.

You mentioned "writers" with regard to the oracle. The Bible is a compilation of 66 books written by over 40 different authors, some of them prophets, some of them not, but all commonly linked by their belief in YHWH, God of Israel, and their remarkably consistent message.

What is the Greek counterpart to that which lends support to the existence of the Greek gods, preserves their message and details the prophecies of those such as the oracle?

353 posted on 05/25/2005 2:05:25 PM PDT by agrace (All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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