{"id":1072,"date":"2003-04-15T12:32:28","date_gmt":"2003-04-15T16:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2003\/04\/15\/1072.html"},"modified":"2003-04-15T12:32:28","modified_gmt":"2003-04-15T16:32:28","slug":"spinoza-prophecy-and-a-cry-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2003\/04\/15\/spinoza-prophecy-and-a-cry-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinoza, Prophecy, and a Cry for Help!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So I'm reading Spinoza, or at least the first fifteen pages of the <a href=\"http:\/\/home.earthlink.net\/~tneff\/build3.htm?\/~tneff\/tptcont.htm\">Theologico-Political Treatise<\/a>, and I've already come upon a question. What is prophecy?\n<p>I don't mean the everyday, casual sense of the word, where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnimag.com\/\">Omni<\/a> has an article about who will win the 2050 Solar System Series, or when the Earth is going to fall into the sun. I mean the theological sense. What makes, for instance, the book of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticsannotatedbible.com\/am\/index.html\">Amos<\/a> prophecy? Most of it is not foretelling; in fact, much (most?) of the writings of the Prophets in the Hebrew Scripture is exhortation, instruction and description. So what is a good working definition of Scriptural Prophecy? Until I get that, I can't really tell whether the bit I initially thought was a provocative idea is actually a crazy misrepresentation.\n<p>Anyway, if you have a definition, or a stab at one, let me know, if possible, before you look at the above link to see Spinoza's.\nThank you,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m reading Spinoza, or at least the first fifteen pages of the Theologico-Political Treatise, and I&#8217;ve already come upon a question. What is prophecy? I don&#8217;t mean the everyday, casual sense of the word, where Omni has an article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}