Mimzee, Doing teshuva based on a false premise is soothing like doing teshuva when having witnessed a miracle. No staying power — it wears off, and it is not teshuva as it came from pachad or a temporary sense of awe, not a commitment to change or to cling to truth. In the case of a miracle, the effect wears off, and the conviction peters out. In the case of a false vision, which includes predictions of actual dates and events, watch the dates pass or the events take different turns, and the not-very faith-based teshuva is replaced by disillusionment. That is worse. There was never a sincere commitment. That is the underlying problem here, and that is why people care enough to analyze it.
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