Anyone ever notice that all the prophecies in the bible came "true" when it was easy to make them do so?

Question

Those people writing the New Testament had all read the Old Testament and knew what the prophecies were. If I made a prophecy today, how hard would it be for you tomorrow to write down a story that made that prophecy sound like it came true?

Those people wanted to make their point of view as believable as possible so they wrote stories that supported their side and said prophecies were fulfilled.

WTF? I have researched it. Take your head out of your *** for a second and think about what I'm saying. In the old testament are predictions. Let's say you predicted one day it will rain, or that someday someone named Joe will meet someone named Mike. Wouldn't it be EASY to write a story making it sound like those came true? Of course it would.

Answer 1

Kareen....are you talking about the bible code? You do realize that the bible code says that human dna was brought in a spaceship to earth and that the creator was an alien, right. Read the book bible code II.

Boy are you in trouble now. I wonder sometimes myself, like it was prophesied that Jesus would ride into Jerusalem on a donkey. So Jesus stood at the gate waiting for his disciples to go get the donkey and bring it to him so he could ride in on it because he knew this was the prophecy and wanted to fulfill it. If you ask about this all you get is "The prophecy was fulfilled", like your crazy or something, like they don't even have a clue what your talking about.

If you ask about the prophecy about Elijah having to come back first and how Jesus said he did that he was John the Baptist they never want to admit this was true. They just want to skirt around the idea because it lends validity to reincarnation. But then they say it wasn't reincarnation but Resurrection. So how was he resurrected when he was born of a woman, (and was Jesus' cousin and born about the same time as him making him about the same age). instead of just popping back to earth alive in the same OLD MAN body that he had before when he was Elijah?

Answer 2

Jewish people such as Moses, David, and the OT prophets primarily wrote the OT. The Bible itself is the story of Christ. The entirety of the OT and the Law is a large puzzle, that once put together, prophecies Christ's coming, redemption of His people, and resurrection.

At the time that Jesus was on earth, the Jews, for the most part, rejected Him. And they have continued to do so throughout the centuries. Why would Jewish writers in the OT write prophecies about Jesus when the Jews in the time of Christ and modern day Jews continue to reject?

Those prophecies have come true but not because they were easily made to become true or because people today have made them come true. In fact, they are still rejecting them!

Answer 3

The Book of Daniel, however gives a number of prophecies about the Greeks and Persians and their empires which are very accurate. Do you suggest the history of Alexander or the Persian Empire are just made up? These stories aren't even covered by NT writers, but the prophecies are true nonetheless. So the question becomes...when was Daniel, and other OT prophecies, written?

Answer 4

There are no valid prophecies in the bible.

Amazing how all those bible "prophecies" have so many different interpretations. Sounds kind of like reading tea leaves or Tarot cards.

Comment regarding "prophecy" of "Jesus":

Amazing how "Christianity" had to be invented by Romans in the 4th Century rather than by Jews in Jerusalem if the Old Testament so clearly "prophesied" Jesus.

Answer 5

This is pretty standard practice for prophets. For some strange reason people are very impressed with predictions about the past. It'd be a lot more convincing if the Bible made some nice specific predictions about the _future_, and those came true.

The Bible isn't really any different from Nostradamus or Sylvia Browne or people like that in this sense.

Answer 6

I see that you have not read much of the Bible and don't believe what you read. Daniel the prophet, prophesied about a coming king that will rule the earth with a rod of iron. The apostle John prophesied that about Daniel's 70th week and a great tribulation period when the Lord will pour out His wrath on the earth. Daniel 9: 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. The apostle Paul tell us that those that have believed and trusted that the Lord Jesus Christ died for their sins will be caught off the earth before the wrath of God is poured out. 1 Thessalonians 4: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. There are many prophecies that have not been fulfilled but will when the church is gone. Matthew 24: 29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: Matthew 24: 30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Answer 7

You need to do a little research before you go making that claim. there are many prophesies that were fulfilled, chief of them all Christ.
All over the old testament were prophesies of his birth and his death. Isaiah is a great book full of prophesy about the messiah, all of it came true. or read Hebrews. the writer explains how the prophesies of the old testament were fulfilled in Christ.
do a little research on the web. I'm certain you'll be surprised to see how many fulfilled prophesies there are.

Answer 8

You should try it. And see if you revolutionize the world with your book.

God Himself says that prophecy is a proof of the true God: "Let these idols come forward and foretell the future for us. Let them declare the meaning of these past events that we may reflect on it; let them predict the future to us that we may know what it holds. Declare what is yet to happen; then we shall know you are gods" (Isaiah 41:22-23)

The best and brightest minds are perplexed about what is happening in the world, including how to solve problems that have defied solution for generations. God, however, knows the solutions, and He has recorded for us exactly how our intractable problems will be solved. He knows how the human experience will end.

God recorded prophecies and their fulfillments in the Bible as proof of the inspiration of Bible prophecy. If He can foretell events centuries in advance, then see that they are brought to pass, we have irrefutable proof of His existence and that the Bible is indeed His inspired Word for us. If God can bring some of His prophecies to pass, it becomes obvious that it is within His power to see that all the Bible's recorded prophecies are brought to pass.

Answer 9

I do. Not only big prophecies, but prophecies about my life or Christians lives. it has prophecies concerning unbelievers and believers. this book or the Bible were not written for the unsaved or unbelievers, but to those who believe and will believe so that their faith could grow strong and have no doubt about the accuracy of the bible that it is the word of God.

Answer 10

You happen to be very wrong!Most prophesies are encoded in the bible and most are usually only realised to have been fulfilled when the event is checked in the bible after occuring:such as Princess Diana's death was found encoded in the bible;including the year and day she died.Including the holocaust(sp)and Hitlers death.Its amazing!