God's Prophecies: what is behind them?

God does not pronounce prophecies. God's activities are interpreted by human beings. "What is behind God's prophecies" is the human imagination. God does not exist (but his prophecies do).This was seen pretty clearly over the Christmas period with those poor miners killed in Virginia.I heard on my radio, listening to BBC news, the joyous celebrations of the Christian community who had prayed their hardest and discovered that 12 of 13 miners was still alive. The Church bells were ringing and the families were praising the Lord. I heard various local notables explaining that God had saved their loved ones.Then I heard that all of the miners were actually dead. People stopped mentioning God then. The bells stopped.The good-will of God clearly existed only in the imagination of those poor miners' families.The same goes for God's prophecies. They are DEFINITELY worth celebrating if they bring good news to a community, but they get shifted under the carpet when things go wrong.Mick.in edit: Given what Americans are like, they didn't blame God for the death of 13 miners, but started threatening law suits. A quick switch from the religious to the secular, mediated by TV...This message has been edited by mick, 01-05-2006 10:27 PM