Prophecy is not synonym for prediction. it is a "message from God" in the major theistic religions. The only prophecies that were predictions I can think of wi

Prophecy is not synonym for prediction. it is a "message from God" in the major theistic religions. The only prophecies that were predictions I can think of with regard to Christianity were Jewish prophecies of a messiah. The Jewish prophets were leaders, not soothsayers. > there's kind of an inverse relation between size and durability of religion and the number and specificity of predictions, though I would question that - things like the Oracle at Delphi lasted a long time. So did fortune telling (mostly non-religious) around the world. How long as astrology lasted?