When you Google ‘prophet’ the first definition that pops up is “a person regarded as an inspired teacher or proclaimer of the will of God.” With this definition in mind, figures like Ezekiel, Jesus, and Moses fit into the criteria for being a prophet. In class we talked about how the only way to reveal a false prophet was to wait and see if their premonitions/predictions of future events actually came to pass. It seems strange now to entrust so much into the counseling and advice from a fortune teller. The idea of a false prophet reminded me of the sci-fi game, Halo, where the main antagonist is an alien hegemony (called the Covenant) led by false prophets. Long-story short, humanity posed a threat to the entire pyramid scheme of the zealous alien hegemony. The blind faith of the followers of the fictitious Covenant and the faith placed into prophets of the Bible’s writing correlated with each other in my head during class. More of a random post, but Biblical texts and structures influence other media around us.
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