Prophecy for Buzsaw

I totally agree Ned. One rule or another trips up any prophecy made in the Bible. For instance, Jesus told Peter that he would deny him three times before the rooster crowed. This was a very specific prophecy that the New Testament said was fulfilled. But then you run into the nasty little rule of corroboration from an outside source, of which there is none. The rules laid out at the beginning are very fair rules, whether applied to prophecies in the New and Old Testament, or any other religious text, or even to Nostradamus for example.

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Okay, people seem to think I'm being a little harsh on Percy. I won't mention the 1st rule then. Maybe the rules are viable - it's simply my opinion that they arent, or at least that rule 1 is dodgy

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Even though you may not want to talk about the 1st rule, there are prophecies in the Bible that pass that rule (eg. Peter denying Jesus three times before the rooster crowed). The only problem is that there is no extra-biblical corroboration. Without these rules Nostradamus could be just as prophetic as any prophet in the Bible. If I were to make the prophesy "a great nation will go to war" what are the chances that future events could fulfill this prophesy? Pretty good, I would think. Specificity and corroboration by an outside source are the best ways to define fulfilled prophecy.