That word comes up as The Thinking Atheist puts out a video in which 'Evangelists' (mostly of the 'Tele-' variety) proclaim that Donald Trump will be elected President because he is chosen by God ... up to- and a little bit after-he LOST the election in November.
Mr. Andrews then turns that 'wrong prediction' into "apparently the work of false 'prophets'" (although I don't know that he ever actually calls them that; he does point out that 'the guy they say their God voted-for is not the one who won the election, so ...'---and The Evangelists bring up the "false prophet"-claims ... exactly the way a 'false prophet' would: "Now, I'm not a 'false prophet'; but ...")
The word “Predict” is built on ancient words that mean "to Say (Show, Pronounce Solemnly) Before."
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Well, that's actually pretty close to 'the etymology of "Prophecy,"' but I would 'warp the meaning of it' (with "Prophet") back to 'one who clearly sees what we should do if things turn out the way we want.'
What 'the prominent form of Evangelism' ("Prosperity Gospel"-Televangelism) has done ... it's sort of influenced by the massive, insidiously corruptive wealth that comes from Positive Thinking---
Brother Kenneth calls it "the God-mind" ... God said it, and that settles it!(Brother Kenneth might put it, 'In the beginning, God didn't say "Oh, it's pretty-dark out there! I hope there's light I might find somewhere 😟"; He said, "LIGHT, BE!!!!" And--after He said that (and not before)--there was light so abundant He had to collect it into the daytime, when a little bit of that spilled over into the sparkle of the stars at night!...')OK, I went a little "mythos-logical" after the 'God commanded the light to BE!'-part. But I'm just showing how Brother Copeland uses it to learn- and teach others-'the power of positive thinking'---proclaim the positive outcome, and proceed as if your proclaimed reality is manifest (or (as Seth Andrews quipped) their "Name it & Claim it" ...(or--as The Gospel has Lord Jesus Christ instruct the disciples--"Speak unto the Mountain, telling it, 'Be thou cast into the sea!' and it shall be done," or "If two or more of you agree on anything here on Earth, Our Father will hold it true in Heaven!"(And there's a phrase Capps Ministries (Annette & her father Charles) love to quote, "Speaking of 'things that be not' as though they 'are' (I think the word they quote is 'were,' but 'are' sounds more-appropriate).":(The real-life example that sticks out in my mind: the thermostat. You don't input 'the temperature it is right now' when you want to set the thermostat to make it cooler-or-hotter, but you input 'the temperature you expect it to become.'(Another example: The elevator. In the elevator, you don't need to push any buttons that tell the elevator "which floor you're on"; before you get on, you push the button that tells the elevator 'which direction you wish to go'; when the elevator arrives and you get on, the button you push is 'the floor you want to go to.')
---that's going 'quite a ways' to defend the Televangelists from accusations of False Prophet-hood. They're more like 'the older kids who got duped into hopping onto the boat to Pleasure Island'---they're having the fun that the evil group promised, so the rest of the kids are convinced that they can have the fun too if they hop on board right behind them!
The 'older kids' aren't held responsible for their misguidedness--they're just kids! they don't know!--so the blame falls upon 'the evil group that attracted them.' For televangelists (before you hear them claim the evil group is "Satan & his Demons"), the evil attraction is 'things that money can buy.'
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