tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110460687773644977.post3496790727540466348..comments2023-09-02T07:14:49.753-04:00Comments on Atheism And The City: Questions For Atheists - Part 6 (Prophesy, Christianity, Jesus Christ)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110460687773644977.post-69274434128681775982013-08-07T13:11:04.354-04:002013-08-07T13:11:04.354-04:00Point 1 on prophecy is quite obviously false (for ...Point 1 on prophecy is quite obviously false (for instance, see Ezekials failed prophecies regarding Tyre and Egypt, or the failed prophecies from Daniel regarding the death of Antiochus).<br />His point 2 is just plain silly - it's quite easy to write something so that it corresponds with an earlier text, and since early Christians were specifically reading existing scripture to find prophecies of their messiah, it's pretty easy to see how the NT so miraculously fulfils supposed prophecies of the OT. In fact we can look at the end of the book of Daniel for a good example of this - it very accurately describes events hundreds of years after Daniel supposedly lives and wrote, but then suddenly becomes inacurate - this actually allows us to date that section to be around when the inaccuracy began, and it becomes quite an obvious example of post-hoc prophecy :-)Rianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08021810579773953296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110460687773644977.post-8739829365246264362013-07-28T21:00:31.703-04:002013-07-28T21:00:31.703-04:00If you're a gullible believer you can twist an...If you're a gullible believer you can twist anything into a "prophesy." I've had many debates with Muslims who do the same thing with the Qur'an, and the verses they cite are so incredibly vague, it takes quite an imagination to see it. The Thinkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14303015383137218932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110460687773644977.post-43068452948545057812013-07-28T11:19:36.587-04:002013-07-28T11:19:36.587-04:00It seems any work of fiction can correctly foresha...It seems any work of fiction can correctly foreshadow what is to come within the same work of fiction, it certainly doesn't prove the work is nonfiction. I'd feel completely different about the bible if it told specifics about the future that is currently unfolding.<br /><br />The "no prophesy has failed" question is ridiculous.<br /><br />I don't believe Jesus raised from the dead because it conflicts with the entirely of human experience and biology.Grundyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07339125862340793733noreply@blogger.com