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Does the Bible ever talk about futuristic concepts which the original authors and audience would know nothing about?
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Note: I have already posted this on Biblical Hermeneutics SE
Some time ago I read a book where the author was doubting the divine inspiration nature of the Bible by using the following reasoning:
- Since the Bible is inspired by God who is able to know the future, it should contain some concepts from times long after those parts were written
- There is no such concept in the Bible and the authors use only words (concepts) that are understood by the persons back then
I am wondering about the second statement (since it is hard to prove a negative) and it could be simply refuted by finding such a concept. To make it clearer what I am looking for is something like the following:
- a word or expression that is very similar to a concept developed (found) by humans a long time after the Bible was written (e.g. imagine "laser" is written more than 1000 years ago)
- that word or expression would have had no meaning for the writer
Question: Is there a word or expression in the Bible that confirms that God can know the future?
P.S. Not 100%, but I think the book containing this idea was 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. I will try to locate the exact part containing what I have described.
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