Does the Bible prophesy about cars, the internet & AI?

[@scambammer6102]

everyone knows that the word "running" really means airplanes

[@rainbowkrampus]

Ok, as funny as this was initially, when he flashed that image of the anti-christ looking like a kid using a sheet as a ghost costume I absolutely lost it.

[@SlyPearTree]

To quote Oz from Buffy The Vampire Slayer: "I'd call that a radical interpretation of the text"

[@yaronyaronyaronyaronyarony3187]

Its not radical ! Its stupid !!

[@SpaceLordof75]

I can’t believe someone could watch the original video and think “wow. That’s both true, and amazing”. Delusion is a hell of a drug.

[@SpaceLordof75]

@@Hjff_-gdgyhh_5kfj That’s a silly thing to point out. You’re reading the word “circuit” in the modern sense. It used to just mean a circle, or cycle. And the part about the heat is even sillier. Of course the author of the Psalm knew the sun produced heat. Your response is exactly what my post was talking about.

[@jenna2431]

My response is usually "I'll have what they're having...."

[@lde-m8688]

​@@jenna2431This! I want to drink that koolade

[@bradleythornock8627]

“The Bible predicted the rolling boulder scene from Raiders when it said “a stone cut without hands” would roll over man,” this kid probably

[@jemckee]

Thank you for that useful word: Eisegesis. It reminds me of the "helicopter gun ships" reading of Revelation 9 in Hal Lindsey's Late Great Planet Earth.

[@toniacollinske2518]

Everytime you feature that guy, it gives me flashbacks to my traumatic youth spent in the 1st Baptist Church. Two decades listening to "end times" BS spoken by deeply creepy men.

[@Ejaezy]

It's been the end times for over two thousand years. I wonder when they will get it...

[@sketchygetchey8299]

Dan, I don’t know how you keep a straight face when watching these TikTok videos! 😂

[@captionhere19]

I'm convinced"don't insult this creator" is actually just a self spoken mantra for himself

[@aaronpolichar7936]

It's very easy to shoehorn whatever meaning you want into a prophecy after the fact.

[@beckydegraaf6976]

It’s so nice of you to correct these misconceptions… Thank you so much!

[@christasimon9716]

That is _so_ bad, the phrase "Not even wrong" comes to mind.

[@robertmoore2049]

Evil increasing, folk running to and fro? I’m sure that has been happening even before Daniel’s time.

[@FernandoCarreno-wg8cp]

If people can show us one point in human history where we weren’t killing each other over the smallest things I’d be surprised

[@coreyc490]

Dan, I TRULY appreciate everything you do but some days it’s a REAL challenge not to have a go at the original creators.

[@txikitofandango]

The original creator's channel would've been highly addictive to me in middle school

[@frankblack8448]

Imagine thinking that the group of goat herders who wrote this nonsensical book could predict anything past what they were going to have for dinner that day.

[@captionhere19]

Sometimes i say "eh i know thats nonsense so im not gonna watch" but then i see its THAT guy and say ""oh hell ya, play that"

[@QuinnPrice]

Yikes, I used to run in these circles where someone would throw out baseless apologetics, thinking they are doing God's work in promoting sacred beliefs.

[@nates9029]

"But today, we also have the answer to any question we can think of at our fingertips..." I wish the guy in that video would take advantage of the knowledge available at his fingertips so he would stop making ridiculous videos like this and keep embarrassing himself.

[@AMoniqueOcampo]

Whenever I think of the idea of the Bible being "inspired by God," I never think that the Bible would foreshadow future events. Instead, I always interpreted divine inspiration as being similar to how writers are inspired or that the authors were inspired by what they were experienced.

[@digitaljanus]

​@@Hjff_-gdgyhh_5kfj Are you only aware of a single meaning for "circuit"?

[@MarcillaSmith]

Agreed! It's quite a leap from "inspired by God" to "therefore: iPhones." If someone told me they had written a poem, or whatever, after being "inspired by God," I would never start dissecting their writing to find some hidden insight into what technology had yet to emerge. If this is what people are like today, it's easy to see how a Simon Magus type of thousands of years ago could show up to a village, pull off a few parlor tricks, and swindle people into all sorts of nonsense.

[@2023-better-research]

When he said ''It does." I said "Ooooh my g-o-o-o-d." His views have been wrong, but this is beyond wrong. Actually, Chuck Missler used to teach precisely what he recited from book of Daniel in the 1990s and early 2000s (the running "to-and-fro" from King James version). I would not be surprised if he grabbed this from Missler or other pre-tribulationist prophecy buffs like Hal Lindsey.

[@2023-better-research]

@@Hjff_-gdgyhh_5kfj Circuit = path in the Hebrew. Nothing scientific in the HB.

[@dertechl6628]

@@Hjff_-gdgyhh_5kfjNothing.

[@hjtapia74]

Dan, I honestly admire your patience to respond to these nonsense, I aspire to learn that from you, truly. But I haven’t learned it 😅 so, I will write what I think: I wonder if this kid really believes the ridiculous argument on his video, or if he is smart enough to know there are thousands of idiots that will believe him and he is just making money out of them

[@isaacreain]

Nice work Dan very thoughtful...It's weird when people who claim to seek and desire the truth absorb others talking points as facts generally with zero research or thought in my opinion much like the subject of this video. To find the truth one must not just hear but look as well perhaps labor a bit! ;)

[@smilefrownupdown]

I needed to hear this

[@terryriley8963]

Back then people didn’t need the internet or smart phones, they would just ask whatever God or Gods they worshipped for their answers and when they didn't get an answer they would make one up. So nothing has changed there.

[@williamwatson4354]

There already was a one world government that the writer of Revelation lived in. Rome.

[@lde-m8688]

Oh for f$#k sake........what IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?!?!

[@themightycaolf6549]

If you really wanna cut hairs, people aren't more "Knowledgeable" in the sense, we know more. We still hold about the same amount of knowledge in our heads. What we do know nowadays is A. More accurate on average and B. As a whole, we know more, but as individuals we typically don't really know as much in terms of practical information (i.e what plants are safe to eat or not, what mixture of ingredients creates this chemical. Etc. Etc.)

[@svezhiepyatki]

The initial question is odd. A book doesn't have to mention modern stuff in order to remain relevant in some way. War and Peace doesn't have iPhones in it, but it doesn't mean we should throw it away. So I don't see why an inspired book has to mention 9/11 or memestocks.

[@pansepot1490]

Yeah, that’s a particularly silly and irrelevant hill to die on. My suspicion is that he’s competing with Muslim apologists. I often heard the argument that the Quran contains scientific facts that were discovered only in modern times.

[@lde-m8688]

​@@pansepot1490No, the only thing he is competing with is natural selection.

[@StevenWaling]

@@lde-m8688 or possibly just reality...

[@carto_russ2032]

I’m so thankful that this sort of Christianity wasn’t the Christianity I was exposed to growing up. This idea that the Bible *needs* to predict things like cars and AI and the internet to be taken seriously by people of faith is so absurd

[@miscalotastuff733]

Most of these verses dealt with the likes of ancient egypt and the like. They had some interesting stuff for example like talking statues.

[@boboak9168]

Oh Boy! How many fellow ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses were reminded of these ‘gems’ from ‘The Finished Mystery’? - "Behemoth" of Job 40:15-24 is a stationary steam engine. (p.84) - "Leviathan" of Job 41:2-19 is a locomotive. (p.85) - The "valiant men" of Nathum 2:3 are an engineer and a fireman. (p.93) - "The chariots rage in the streets, they jostle one another" of Natham 2:4 are the clanking and the bumping of railway cars. (p.93) - The "voice from heaven" of Revelation 18:4 is the voice of The Watchtower Society. (p.276) - The glory of the angel of Revelation 18:1 refers to modern discoveries such as correspondence schools, celluloid, Divine Plan of the Ages, talking machines, vacuum cleaners, induction motors, pasteurization, Panama Canal, shoe sewing machines, subways, skyscrapers, Roentgen rays. (p.273) - The preachers of Christianity say things that originate in their own imagination (p.432) [proved their own point 🤣] - Revelation 14:20 predicted the precise distance from the place where The Finished Mystery was produced in Stranton, Pennsylvania to its shipping destination in Bethel in New York City (p. 230) How embarrassing!!! 😊 (Thanks to JW Facts for making this list so easily retrievable)

[@Agryphos]

the finished mystery is way before my time, but thanks for the fun blast from cult history

[@aaronlogan_music]

American Evangelical eschatology is such a mess.

[@KaiHenningsen]

Of course, once you accept the idea that any sentence in scripture can be yanked out of context (sometimes with the help of questionable translations) and interpreted hard enough to be a prophecy about a much later time ("A currently pregnant young woman shall bear a son named Immanuel, and once he gets old enough to distinguish good from evil, your current political problems will have solved themselves" -> "The messiah will be born of a virgin and be called Jesus", and that was already done when the gospels were written) - anything becomes possible.

[@user-gk9lg5sp4y]

While sometimes the mental gymnastics of apologists can be breathtakning, this particular apologists mental gymnastics are so hilariously bad as to be wonderful.

[@dannyboyakadandaman504furl9]

Smfh 😂holy shit 😂

[@EricMcLuen]

So the Bible predicted Bigmouth Billy bass?

[@idan654321]

In hebrew the word for evil is רוע or רע depending on the niqud, either way רעת doesnt make sense as a noun by itself as far as im concerned (and i also looked up the word and by itself nothing came up), now if it were רעה which either means bad in a feminine sense (so saying "shes bad" would translate to היא רעה) or something along the lines of an evil deed, a wrong, which might turn to רעת only if it were a smichut as far as i know (סמיכות, according to wiki it translates to a construct state but i really dont know how well it translates to it) which we dont see in the masoretic text, i dont know greek but i doubt there is indication for it as u translated it, so either im wrong and רעת is a noun by itself (in which case i would ask for a reference for it) or it's more complex than the way you present it.

[@Theprofessorator]

No way, another poorly translated verse for apologists to misinterpret and weaponize. Thanks for combating these misconceptions.

[@WhichDoctor1]

Gotta love a prophecy that can only be understood as predicting a thing after that thing has already happened. The most useful and falsifiable form of prediction

[@victortitimas6904]

What if someone clones Nero? Wouldn't that be him "returning" in a way?:)

[@ThePapawhisky]

It takes a lot of work, imagination, and twisting to get any old book to seem like the wisest book on offer. This kid is trying hard, but it’s so thin that it’s transparent. It’s so clear that the belief comes first and the massaging and manipulation of texts to say more than they say comes second.

[@KhalerJex]

these guys read everything into the text.

[@jenna2431]

So they want to take credit for technology too, now???

[@davidoliver9551]

Well, at least, both free and slave are eligible to receive the mark...thanks AI! BTW, which slaves are those?

[@jackaltwinky77]

The answer to every question at their fingertips… and still so wrong about it

[@Zahaqiel]

Super cool when people lift verses entirely out of context to claim miraculous knowledge that is entirely meaningless to the people who the text was for, and even in the re-imagined context does nothing to improve the knowledge of the people at the time. Just an amazing nothingburger of credulous nonsense. He's strawmanning the real question ("If the Bible is the word of God, why doesn't it assist people in knowing anything more than was already generally known at the time of its writing?") and then even his response to his own strawman is weaker than homeopathic vodka.

[@ethenallen1388]

Would it be accurate to say that folks who post videos about the end times just don't want to clean up the masses we've made and are hoping that some divine being will do it for us?

[@ericlipton7640]

I don’t know if Dan has kids, but I wish I could be as calm and patient as he is when I’m being presented by my teens with pure and utter nonsense.

[@xaayer]

I believe he had mentioned in livestreams that he does have children and now I'm curious about his advice on parenting...

[@Ejaezy]

He does have children. Three if I'm not mistaken

[@weirdlanguageguy]

@@Ejaezyincluding at least one teenager

[@squiddwizzard8850]

DAAAAD! JEFF HIT ME Alright, let's see it.

[@scienceexplains302]

*Fallacy of composition* Even if the apologist’s translation were correct, he is engaging in a full fallacy of composition: if the concept in the text has one thing in common with modern technology, then it has all things in common

[@enriquegarcia2612]

Because they have the interpreters of scriptures and of the old professies who can accommodate reality to fit new events with old augures.

[@spinnwebe_]

This guys dead eyes just make me sad and upset

[@chadstroman3325]

That poor content creator. He's gotta be feeling a bit beatdown by this point in his apologetics/testimony sharing.

[@k98killer]

On the point of money as a phylactery, it arguably always has been. Money is so ephemeral that economists cannot agree on a definition for it (I find the distinction between exogenous and endogenous money most useful) -- it is an emergent psychic phenomenon that behaves as if it was a spirit with agency acting upon the world -- people sacrifice their time, effort, and ultimately their life energy for it. It is not without reason that some ancient cultures personified the money spirit as a deity. The author of the Apocalypse wrote that bit about the mark of the beast with hindsight, not oracular foresight.

[@pherble]

The creator has really been stretching with this video.

[@SimonDaumMusic]

Sometimes imagination seems to run faster than common sense, mayby thats what the Bible meant with many shall "run to and fro" in the last days .... :)

[@krank23]

Sometimes I really think these people just need to channel their creativity into some otther hobby. I mean thay'd be pretty decent fanfic writers - that's pretty much what they're already doingm right? Bible fanfiction and headcanon?

[@icollectstories5702]

My AI refuses to tell me whether I'm going to heaven or hell, or whether I'm in hell already. Like God, it may know everything, but refuses to answer, making the question of knowledge moot. And did the Bible predict I would be running to and fro because a *car* is chasing me? I suppose an answer is also moot because I'm gonna find out really soon anyway ....🚘😁🚗

[@delfimoliveira8883]

😂😂

[@NorbertKasko]

???? So knowledge will increase therefore it predicted the internet and AI. Ah sorry because of the beast. That's better. Give me a bottle of vodka!

[@appalachianmountain]

Is this guy just trolling? this stuff is just too crazy...

[@petercollins7730]

I don't know how you manage to answer some of these inanities with a straight face and well-researched, factual responses. A lesser man would just sit in front of the camera and laugh for seven and a half minutes. Kudos for amazing discipline and self-control.

[@Inabin]

Evangelical Christians have discovered lots of marks of the beast for centuries, and the end times still haven’t come. That’s weird.

[@Outspoken.Humanist]

His videos are getting crazier each time. Now he thinks the Bible predicted the internet, planes and cars? It would be funny if his delusion wasn't so sad.

[@OEMichael]

This one creator... oof. Apropos of nothing, is the author of 2 Corinthians 11:19 being sarcastic and imploring us to do the opposite? Namely, to *not* "suffer fools gladly"?

[@Fire-Toolz]

oh no not this guy again

[@jyewhin]

One of the worse cases of biased interpretation I have seen. Granted I have not seen as many as others but this was cringey.

[@thundercatt5265]

The Emerald Tablets "when men shall fly in the sky as birds and swims in the sea like fish" but the Emerald tablets are not Bible

[@jkb2819]

Dan you’ve missed a real opportunity here. The Bible does too contain details on future tech, and with the right research grants you could help discover them.