false prophecy
Fraudulent divine forecast
False prophecy is a prediction or religious proclamation claimed to be divinely inspired but considered untrue, mistaken, or fraudulent.
The term appears most often in religious contexts, where false prophets are condemned for misleading believers: Scripture warns against false prophecy.
More broadly, it describes any confident prediction that proves spectacularly wrong: His forecast of eternal prosperity turned out to be false prophecy.
- charlatanFaker claiming false expertise
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- deceiverOne who tricks others
- wolf in sheep's clothingConcealed threat appearing innocent
- snake oilFraudulent cure-all
cult · doomsday cult · messiah · second coming · apocalypse · heresy · prediction · oracle · doomsday · manipulation · revelation · sect · warning · delusion · end times · end of days · fire and brimstone · fanatic
- church offensesheresy, apostasy, schism, blasphemy, sacrilege
- forbidden actsblasphemy, idolatry, sacrilege, adultery, incest
- Jewish sinsidolatry, adultery, incest, blasphemy, idol worship
- Torah sinsidol worship, idolatry, blasphemy, adultery, incest
- heresyheretic, heretical, heretics, apostasy, apostate
- sinsgreed, lust, gluttony, deadly sin, sloth
false, falsely, falseness, falsify, falsification, falsity, falsified, falsifier, falsehood