Prophecy, in a broad sense, is the prediction of future events. The etymology of the word is ultimately Greek, from pro- "before" plus the root of phanai "speak", i. e. "speaking before" or "foretelling", but prophecy often implies the involvement of supernatural phenomena, whether it is communication with a deity, the reading of magical signs, or astrology. It is also used as a ...

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• Prophecy - History of prophecy
• Prophecy - Prophecy in religion
• Prophecy - Evidence of prophecy
• Prophecy - Folk prophecy
• Prophecy - Sortes virgilianae
• Prophecy - The crawling baby
• Prophecy - Scientific prediction

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Prophecy, Prophecy - History of prophecy, Prophecy - Prophecy in religion, Prophecy - Evidence of prophecy, Prophecy - Folk prophecy, Prophecy - Sortes virgilianae, Prophecy - The crawling baby, Prophecy - Scientific prediction

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The earliest manifestations of prophecy were most often found in the form of magical spells and folk charms. In modern times, astrology and other pseudoscientific techniques have gained wide acceptance. Prophecies are often based on divination, or determining the will of gods or other supernatural entities. Many methods are used to achieve this, including reading tea leaves, cloud formations, animal behav ...

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Prophecy, Prophecy - History of prophecy, Prophecy - Prophecy in religion, Prophecy - Evidence of prophecy, Prophecy - Folk prophecy, Prophecy - Sortes virgilianae, Prophecy - The crawling baby, Prophecy - Scientific prediction

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Sahaja Yoga and the Religions of the World

The texts below show references to the Kundalini, Self Realization, their association with the cool breeze felt emanating from the top of the head and from the palms, and predictions referring to the coming of Shri Mataji and Sahaja Yoga in these modern times.

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Armageddon refers, generally, to end times or Earth ending catastrophes in various religions and cultures. "Armageddon" also refers to any great loss of life in battle, etc. or massive use of nuclear weapons. The word armageddon is derived from Mount (Har in Hebrew) Megiddo, the site of the Battle of Megiddo and other battles. Interestingly, the only mention in the Bible was in Revelation 16:16: "And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon" (KJV). This bible prophecy reference ...

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• Armageddon - Jehovah's Witnesses
• Armageddon - Rastafari movement
• Armageddon - Seventh-day Adventist

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Celtic mythology is the mythology of Celtic polytheism, the apparent religion of the Iron Age Celts. Like other Iron Age Europeans, the early Celts maintained a polytheistic mythology and religious structure. Among Celtic peoples in close contact with Rome, such as the Gauls and Celtiberians, their mythology did not survive the Roman empire, their subsequent conversion to Christianity, and the loss of their Celtic languages. Ironically it is through contemporary Roman and Christian sources that what we do know of their belie ...

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• Celtic mythology - Historical sources
• Celtic mythology - Julius Caesar’s comments on Celtic Religion and their significance
• Celtic mythology - Branches of Celtic mythology
• Celtic mythology - Celtic deities
• Celtic mythology - The gods of the ancient Celts
• Celtic mythology - The gods of Ireland
• Celtic mythology - The gods of Wales
• Celtic mythology - The Dagda
• Celtic mythology - The Morrígan
• Celtic mythology - Belenus
• Celtic mythology - Lúgh/Lug
• Celtic mythology - Other gods
• Celtic mythology - Temples
• Celtic mythology - Celtic worship
• Celtic mythology - The druids
• Celtic mythology - Significance of Prophecy in Druidic Ritual
• Celtic mythology - Modern remnants
• Celtic mythology - Druidism?

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Time travel is the concept of moving forward and backward to different points in time, much as we do through space. It also includes traveling sideways in time between parallel realities or universes. Humans are in fact always travelling in time — in a linear fashion, from the present to the immediate future, inexorably, until death. Some theories, most notably special and general relativity, suggest that suitable geometries of spacetime, or certain types of motion in space, may allow time travel into the past and future if t ...

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• Time travel - Physics
• Time travel - The equivalence of time travel and faster-than-light travel
• Time travel - Special spacetime geometries
• Time travel - Using wormholes
• Time travel - Using Quantum Entanglement
• Time travel - The possibility of paradoxes
• Time travel - Time travel and the direction of time
• Time travel - Time travel and the anthropic principle
• Time travel - Time travel and religion
• Time travel - Prophecy and theology
• Time travel - Transcending time through ancient wisdom
• Time travel - Time travel in fiction
• Time travel - Types of time travel
• Time travel - Gradual and instantaneous
• Time travel - Time travel or space-time travel?
• Time travel - Distance of time travel
• Time travel - Fundamental problems with time travel
• Time travel - Open future models

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Vaticinium ex eventu ("Prophecy from the event") is a technical theological or historiographical term referring to a prophecy written after the author already had information about the events he was "foretelling". The text is written so as to appear that the prophecy had taken place before the event. Vaticinium ex eventu is a form of hindsight bias There is no agreement how much of Biblical prophecy falls into this category. From the point of view of the devout followers of Bible-based religions (Christianity and ...

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Christian vegetarianism is the dietary practice of vegetarianism or veganism based on the belief that Jesus Christ, the twelve apostles and the early Messianic Jewish followers of Jesus (the Ebionites) were vegetarians. Some Christian vegetarians, such as Keith Akers, think that a movement away from simple living and vegetarianism began with Paul, and that they need to return to pre-Pauline early Christianity. However critics suggest that the decision to be vegetarian or omnivore is purely a personal choice, as there are many pass ...

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The prophecies of a Second Coming are various and span across many religions and cultures. Most notable is the Christian belief in the return of Jesus. The belief is closely tied to a belief in God, and a belief in prophets, sometimes called Messengers or Manifestations, who have some level of divinity or closeness to God. Almost every religious tradition has some form of prophecy of a return of one of these figures, or the coming of a new figure. Second Coming - Christianity. The vast majority of th ...

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• Second Coming - Christianity
• Second Coming - Bahá'í Faith
• Second Coming - Judaism
• Second Coming - Islam
• Second Coming - New Church / Swedenborgianism
• Second Coming - New Age / Maitreya
• Second Coming - Rastafari
• Second Coming - Reference literature

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Dave Hunt, born in 1926, is a Christian apologist, speaker, radio commentator and author. He writes a weekly message through The Berean Call. Hunt has traveled to the Near East, lived in Egypt, and has written numerous books. They including books on theology, prophecy, cults, and other religions. Theologically, Hunt is evangelical, Dispensational and Arminian. Dave Hunt - Bibliography. Debating Calvinism; Dave Hunt and James White America, Israel and Islam, ISBN 1929125321 ...

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• Dave Hunt - Bibliography

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John the Baptist (also called John the Baptizer or Yahya the Baptizer) is regarded as a prophet by at least three religions: Christianity, Islam, and Mandaeanism. According to the Gospel of Luke 1:36 (NRSV)[1], he was a relative of Jesus. That he was a prophet is asserted by the Synoptic Gospels and the Qur'an (see also prophets of Islam). He is also commonly referred to as John the Forerunner/Precursor because he was the forerunner of Christ (Tiphshut). Isaiah 40:3-5 is commonly read as a prophecy of John. Muslim ...

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• John the Baptist - Josephus
• John the Baptist - Christian view
• John the Baptist - Islamic view
• John the Baptist - Mandaean view
• John the Baptist - Gnostic view
• John the Baptist - Unification church
• John the Baptist - Places and things named for John the Baptist

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Ancient Judaism, also known as Ancient Palestine: Society and Religion, is a book written by Maximilian Weber, a German economist and sociologist in early 20th century. Note that the original edition was in German - the essays on Ancient Judaism appeared originally in the 1917-1919 issues of the Archiv fur Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialforschung. Marianne Weber, his wife, published the essays as Part Three of his Gesammelte Aufsatze zur Religionssoziologie' in 1920-1921. An English translation wa ...

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• Ancient Judaism book - Book content
• Ancient Judaism book - Types of Asceticism and the Significance of Ancient Judaism
• Ancient Judaism book - History and Social Organization of Ancient Palestine
• Ancient Judaism book - Political Organization and Religious Ideas in the Time of the Confederacy and the Early Kings
• Ancient Judaism book - Political Decline Religious Conflict and Biblical Prophecy

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Messianic Judaism is any of a group of loosely related religious movements, all claiming a connection with Judaism, and all of which consider Jesus to have been the Messiah. Messianic Judaism began in the 1800's, as Jewish converts to the Church of England began to organize into smaller groups. This was paralleled by a growth of missions to the Jewish people. By the 1860's, the first Messianic umbrella organization, the Hebrew Christian Alliance, had been formed through the Church of England ...

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• Messianic Judaism - Messianic religions in general
• Messianic Judaism - Organization and beliefs
• Messianic Judaism - The Torah-pole
• Messianic Judaism - The Evangelical pole
• Messianic Judaism - The mainstream Messianic movement
• Messianic Judaism - Religious practices
• Messianic Judaism - Messianic Judaism or Hebrew Christianity?
• Messianic Judaism - Critics of the Messianic movement
• Messianic Judaism - Parallels to Baal Teshuva
• Messianic Judaism - Books on Messianic Topics

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Eschatology (from the Greek έσχατος meaning "last" + -logy) is a part of theology concerned with the final events in the history of the world or the ultimate destiny of human kind, commonly phrased as the end of the world. In many religions, the end of the world is a future event prophesied in sacred texts or folklore. More broadly, eschatology may encompass related concepts such as the Messiah or Messianic Age, the afterlife, and the soul. The Greek word αιών means "age"; some translation ...

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• Eschatology - Buddhism
• Eschatology - Christianity
• Eschatology - Hinduism
• Eschatology - Islam
• Eschatology - Judaism
• Eschatology - Native American
• Eschatology - Hopi
• Eschatology - Mayans
• Eschatology - Sioux
• Eschatology - Norse mythology
• Eschatology - Zoroastrianism
• Eschatology - Prophetic movements
• Eschatology - Other religions

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In contrast to the above models, the following models see religion as "progressively true." These models differentiate between major world religions and the cults and false religions which develop in the above ways. Within these models, and in contrast to cults, religions reflect an essential Truth to one degree or another. The development of religion is therefore the course of religions aligning themselves more closely with the Truth. 1) Within these models, religions are developed by prophets and teachers who bring genuine ins ...

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Development of religion, Development of religion - Religions as social construction, Development of religion - Dogma selection model, Development of religion - Opiate of the masses model, Development of religion - Theory of religion model, Development of religion - Religions as progressively true, Development of religion - Bahá'í prophecy model, Development of religion - Great Awakening model, Development of religion - A Study of History model, Development of religion - Religions as absolutely true, Development of religion - Jewish model, Development of religion - Exclusivist models, Development of religion - Role of charismatic figures in the development of religions

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In the following models, religions are seen as absolutely and unchangingly True. They contrast with both the first group of models (which held religion to be false), and the second group (which held religion to develop over time). Development of religion - Jewish model. Traditional Judaism teaches that God relates to humanity through a series of covenants, which are initiated by him, and in which God promises to perform certain acts on the condition that humans "keep their side of the bargain." Jews believ ...

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Development of religion, Development of religion - Religions as social construction, Development of religion - Dogma selection model, Development of religion - Opiate of the masses model, Development of religion - Theory of religion model, Development of religion - Religions as progressively true, Development of religion - Bahá'í prophecy model, Development of religion - Great Awakening model, Development of religion - A Study of History model, Development of religion - Religions as absolutely true, Development of religion - Jewish model, Development of religion - Exclusivist models, Development of religion - Role of charismatic figures in the development of religions

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Many religions have been deeply influenced by charismatic leaders, such as Jesus, Martin Luther, Saint Francis of Assisi, John Calvin, Joseph Smith, Adi Sankara, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Swami Vivekanada, Sai Baba, Muhammad, Gautama Buddha, etc. These leaders are either the central teacher and founder of the religion (e.g. Muhammad, Jesus, or Gautama) or reformers or prominent persons. The historical or legendary founders of some of the major world religions include Abraham and Moses (Judaism), Zoroaster (Zoroastrianism), Siddhartha Gaut ...

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Development of religion, Development of religion - Religions as social construction, Development of religion - Dogma selection model, Development of religion - Opiate of the masses model, Development of religion - Theory of religion model, Development of religion - Religions as progressively true, Development of religion - Bahá'í prophecy model, Development of religion - Great Awakening model, Development of religion - A Study of History model, Development of religion - Religions as absolutely true, Development of religion - Jewish model, Development of religion - Exclusivist models, Development of religion - Role of charismatic figures in the development of religions

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This group of models holds that religion is a social construction, rather than referring to actual supernatural phenomena, that is, phenomena beyond the natural world that we measure using the scientific method. Some of these models view religion as nonetheless having or having had a mostly positive effect on society, the individual, and civilization itself, and others view it as having or having had a mostly injurious or destructive effect. Many ...

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Development of religion, Development of religion - Religions as social construction, Development of religion - Dogma selection model, Development of religion - Opiate of the masses model, Development of religion - Theory of religion model, Development of religion - Religions as progressively true, Development of religion - Bahá'í prophecy model, Development of religion - Great Awakening model, Development of religion - A Study of History model, Development of religion - Religions as absolutely true, Development of religion - Jewish model, Development of religion - Exclusivist models, Development of religion - Role of charismatic figures in the development of religions

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Time travel - Prophecy and theology. It is interesting to note that any religion which postulates the existence of fulfilled prophecy requires, at the very least, an agent which can move information from the future into the past. In Christian theology, for example, God is assumed to exist unbound by space or time. Doctrinally, God is held to be omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. Statements in the Bible such as Jesus's claim "before Abraham was born, I am" (John 8:58) and Peter's claim "[Jesus] was ch ...

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Time travel, Time travel - Physics, Time travel - The equivalence of time travel and faster-than-light travel, Time travel - Special spacetime geometries, Time travel - Using wormholes, Time travel - Using Quantum Entanglement, Time travel - The possibility of paradoxes, Time travel - Time travel and the direction of time, Time travel - Time travel and the anthropic principle, Time travel - Time travel and religion, Time travel - Prophecy and theology, Time travel - Transcending time through ancient wisdom, Time travel - Time travel in fiction, Time travel - Types of time travel, Time travel - Gradual and instantaneous, Time travel - Time travel or space-time travel?, Time travel - Distance of time travel, Time travel - Fundamental problems with time travel, Time travel - Open future models

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