Jenny911

A question...

Prophecy, which is predicting future events before they happen, is found through out the Bible. Many of the prophecies predicted have already come to pass, in these prophecies there could be no room of being humanly contrived, the reports of their fulfillment are recorded in history...

Of the truth such prophecies can be attributed to non other than Divine origin...

Here's a vid I came across on Youtube that lists a few of these prophecies:

http://www.iidb.org/vbb/showthread.p...53#post5009153
What do you think?

Jenny

DancesWithCoffeeCups

Many prophecies have failed as well.

Excerpted from this post:


7. Failure of Ezekiel's "Tyre Prophecy".
Ezekiel falsely predicted that Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon would take and permanently destroy Tyre. But Tyre survived Nebby's 13-year siege. The details of this prophecy-failure are summarized on ErrancyWiki here, which also describes the various desperate and doomed attempts by apologists to get around the problem.

8. Failure of Ezekiel's "Egypt Prophecy".
After the failure of the Tyre prophecy, Ezekiel promised Egypt to Nebby as compensation. Nebby was to ransack Egypt so thoroughly that it would be uninhabited for 40 years. Historical records show that this did not happen.

9. Failure of the "Babylon Prophecy" (Isaiah and Jeremiah).
Both of these prophesied that the Medes would take and permanently destroy Babylon. But the Medes were conquered by the Persians, who then went on to peacefully take (and not destroy) Babylon.

This might be better suited to BC&H.

George S

Bible prophecy is the clear proof of the Bible's inaccuracy.

Xianthe

I guess H.G. Wells must have been a prophet.

Jenny911

Well Bible prophecy also indicates the Medes as well as the Persians , see Daniel 5:26-28 when Daniel was interpreting the words written on the wall without hands, It says "This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom (Babylon), and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians."

According to history the Medes and the Persians reigned as one power.

Besides, what about all the prophecies of Christ?

Gawen

There aren't any.

This thread belongs in BC&H.

Jenny911

This thread is about the existence of God, Bible prophecy and its accuracy are proofs of Divinity. This section is called "Existence of God" is it not?

George S

Indeed it is.

Bible Criticism and History might well be considered a sub-topic of EoG.

BC&H focuses more on people who quote the Bible as their proof.

The prophecies found in the Bible are nebulous at best. The "prophecy" is shoehorned to fit. Two different synoptic gospels, for example, want to "fulfill" the prophecy that the Messiah (anointed King of Judea) must be "of the house of David" but chose different ways to "fulfill" this prophecy.

Changing "young woman" to "virgin" was a creative way to go back to prior prophecy, as written, even though the original was about the near future events.

Post-interpretation of prophecy is easy. Kabbalists find modern names hidden in the Torah. I can find my name spelled out in the Bible. Of course, I have to skip a few letters to find it, but it is there.

A real prophecy is when the one whose prophecy predicts a totally unlikely event or future science. Like if a prophet had said, "The answer is energy is matter to a constant of proportionality." Or, "Disease is not caused by devils or demons but by real living creatures to small to see."

Remember, all the writers of the "fulfillment" stories had the original prophecy to model their story on.

Jenny911

Very well then, you say that those who wrote the scriptures could have very well molded their words to fit past prophetic scriptures...

The existence of a man named Jesus of Nazareth is adequate confirmation that it had not been contrived and written down to fit the prophecies spoken of Him.

Everything Christ did, and everything that happened to Him, was in accordance with the prophecies made of Him.

There were many leaders, Romans and Jews alike, during the time of Christ who hated Him and what He taught, after Jesus had died these people, when making records, could very well have denied His existence and the whole history of a man named Christ could have been effaced from the records, yet even these men admit to His existence. Thereby, His existence alone vindicates the prophecies made of Him, not to mention the countless records of man who "taught truth and went about performing miracles".

See this short article on the prophecies of Christ: http://www.proofdirectory.com/HisNameWasJesus.htm

Godless Raven

Oh boy...here we go... :banghead: :Cheeky: