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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 9235232" data-attributes="member: 5142">You certainly have your problems if you can't separate your own personal hangups about the biblical texts as propaganda with what I am telling you about prophesy and prophetic texts. I used prophetic texts in the Bible as an example but talking about prophets, prophesy, and prophetic texts in ancient Near Eastern literature or other cultures would not really change my point much. It can be, but it is not inherently so. I am not pulling this from my butt here. I am telling you that there are scholars who have studied ancient prophecies and prophetic texts and that they are almost always speaking more about the present than the imagined future. As I said, it's more so about the present than the future. You may be conflating how we popularly imagine prophesy, particularly its use in fiction, with how prophets and prophesy have historically functioned in their respective cultures.</blockquote>