reply to post by Amenti
Oh come one, all that just to spread biblical propaganda. You think the bible is the most important book we can own, and that it is always correct in
its prophecies.
1)
Precise prophecies are risky - they have a very high probability of being wrong. The bible almost always shies away from any such attempt at prophecy
choosing to make ambiguous prophecies that could be "fulfilled" by any number of different criteria instead.
If there was a god, and he was realy god like, then he could be more precice then what is written in the bible. That wague stuff is no better than
what anyone can make up.
Here's a prophecy I just made up.
"There will come a time when three evil men rise to power, and a woman will oppose them, leading the people against them!"
Ill bet that comes true in... oh lets say under 20 years
2)
The character Jesus knew the prophecies he was supposed to fulfill.
How difficult is it to fulfill a prophecy you knew about beforehand? It's not. Anyway, make up a book with prophesies (old testament), and then
write a book about them coming true, easy peasy.. but still hogwash.
3)
Biblical prophecies are not backed up by any evidence outside the bible.
One of the good things about the gospels: they provide historical claims that can be tested empirically.
There is also no documentation of any out of the ordinary celestial events at that time, even though such things were very accurately recorded then.
Another example would be the historical absence of any corroboration to the idea that Herod's slaughter of innocent children. This tends to be the
kind of thing that historians write about.
4)
Numerous prophecies were unfulfilled.
The bible spell out that god expressly says that Tyre shall never be rebuilt. Of course, Tyre was rebuilt and remains one of the oldest inhabited
cities to this day (2750 BCE - present).
5)
Self-fulfilling prophecies.
These are prophecies along the lines of saying, "Tomorrow I'm going to go fishing" and then going fishing the following day.
A similar case would be saying you're going to rebuild a temple and then doing it. You can find many cases of this in the bible, and Christians
all-to-eager to brand them as fulfilled prophecies.
There are 34,000 sects of Christianity on the world, and well over 250,000 different religions. The average human lives about 22,000 days - yet we
are supposed to cover them all in order to find the one true faith? If that's the case, then it is quite a little crapshoot that god has set up for
us, isn't it?
The bible is the obvious work of ancient people who, lacking knowledge of every iota of discovery between then and now would have obviously packed the
bible such that it is bursting at the seems with ancient ignorance.