Eh, sure they can. If some passage in the Bible were to specifically and successfully predict a future event, that would be some (not necessarily overwhelming) evidence of its importance. The difficulty is that it's hard to accurately date when these things were written down, especially without the assumption that if the Bible predicts something specifically and successfully, it must have been written after the fact.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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