(V): [ We have since the 50's had the ability to wipe out 'all' life. Well..... most. Some species are hardy little buggers just like we were when the dino's got killed off. So? ]

So pretend we are living say, a mere two or three centuries ago, and are having this conversation. Do you think you might agree this was possible, and wonder why I'm even bothering to bring it up... or would you think I'm some starry eyed religonist who mindless believes everything the Bible says?

How could I believe this was even possible, like the prophesy that says everyone in the world will be able to see an event as it unfolds... IMPOSSIBLE!!

COULD you believe that, when reason and everything you know about reality says it can't happen? A massive natural disaster on a global scale, okay, maybe all life could be wiped out by that. But completely wiped out by men? No way! It's impossible!

Seriously, do you think two hundred years ago you wouldn't be tempted to scoff at an impossible scenario "invented" two thousand years ago? It would take lots of faith and guts for anyone to say they believed it. But this is today, so your response was basically to repeat what I said and then ask "So?"

One of the proofs of prophesy, IMO, isn't just that an event happens as predicted, it also contains information that can only make sense at the time it happens. The idea that the whole world can witness an event as it happens, or that man would have the power to wipe out all life on earth would sound like the ravings of a lunatic 2 thousand years ago. There would be zero evidence of anything existing at that time to even base that kind of prediction on.

Who would predict something happening if they didn't believe it can happen? And how could the ravings of a lunatic turn out to be true, if he (or anyone else) did not have the information needed to begin with? WE know it can happen, because we live in that pocket of time those prophesies pointed to, and so for us it usually means nothing more than "Of course this is true, so what?"