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The secrets of divination: For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, 2 Peter 1:21

The secrets of divination: For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, 2 Peter 1:21 The secrets of divination: For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, 2 Peter 1:21

Whether we understand it or not clairvoyance or divination as an ability has its own logic and has its own rules, no matter how skilled a person is, the ability to perceive the future with the mind has a limit.
To understand this we have to understand that there is an object that strongly interacts with the gift of prophecy and that sets the limits of its operation, and this object is the "beatitude", the Chinese call this object "Tao", the Japanese "Shinto". ", different names for the same concept.
Metaphysics explains that there are objects that we can perceive with the senses, the physical objects, but there are also objects that we can perceive with intelligence and these are the immaterial objects such as numbers for example.
When Jesus speaks to us about the Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus is describing an immaterial object that performs different tasks in the physical world and in the spiritual world. Beatitude is above all a principle of order because it orders behaviors to rewards (Luke 6:20-23) and others to punishments (Luke 6:24-26).
But beatitude is also in charge of sustaining the logical coherence of the universe. This means, for example, that if a prophecy is true, regardless of the decisions we make, the beatitude will act in such a way that the prophecy will be fulfilled, so when a prophecy is true, everything we do against it only reinforces it. And this is what happens to Oedipus, this Greek character receives prophecies and in the end, despite his resistance and refusal to fulfill them, he ends up reinforcing them and making them stronger.
In addition, beatitude as an immaterial object also implies something very important, a clairvoyant cannot change the future using clairvoyance, the beatitude will always block "critical information", this is why when a clairvoyant announces the future, he does so in such a general or imprecise way.
So why is prophecy important? Suppose a clairvoyant sees the future and sees the defeat of his own armies, the clairvoyant cannot change the fact of the "defeat", but what he can change through clairvoyance are the "defeat conditions", for example, to change what would be a "total defeat" into a "pyrrhic defeat".
That is why the apostle Peter, when he speaks to us about the secrets of prophecy, he tells us: "Above all, you must understand no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit" 2 Peter 1:20-21.
Prophecy, as the apostle Peter and all the prophets teach us, is always divine and not human.

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