What do you think about these Bible facts?

Question

Today, as you are reading this, most of the Bible's many prophecies have already been fulfilled. these foretold all of the various dispersions and early regatherings of Israel back into their promised land, the 333 details of the Messiah's first appearance as the Lamb of God, the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple, the more than 1,900-year scattering of the Jews to all parts of the world, and finally their regathering in the 19th and 20th century climaxed by the nation's resurrection as modern Israel in 1948--these are all uncontestable facts of the historical record.

YOU FOLKS ARE FORGETTING ONE THING. THE GOD OF THE BIBLE IS GOD! HE IS THE CREATOR! WOW! WHAT A REVELATION! THAT MEANS EVERYTHING IN THE BIBLE COULD HAVE HAPPENED NO PROBLEM!

stockpicker 2010 - So, your advice to me is , be careful what I believe? Let me say this to you. Be equally careful about what you choose to not believe.

Answer 1

The bible was written by man, not God. It was written 350 years after the birth and death of a man named Jesus. The bible is written metaphorically therefore can be interpreted in many ways. How accurate can it possibly be???

Answer 2

Trust me, if I make enough predictions, many of them will come true...just shear numbers is bound to get some right before it is all over. You are quoting and using the Old Testament as your foundation. I can read the entire Bible and come up with an entirely different conclusion than you...this is a age old delemma, no two people will translate the same way. I have heard the world is ending tomorrow for my entire life...the rapture is on its way and will be here day after tomorrow. Day after day, predictions fail and feeble excuses are made. Give it a rest. Use reason and sanity when reading these things. And besides, the world is ending August 7, 2006, at 9:41 PDT....it's in the book!

Answer 3

What do you think about the truth, the real facts. The Bible is really just a fake story, perhaps a bit like the Loch Ness monster tales.

When we pass on information to another (example: story, joke, description of something etc) by the time these details are passed on by word of mouth, interpreted by others, and then written down, the final details are typically quite different than the original information.

Since the Bible is just a man-made story passed down over many years in various forms, the chance of it being accurate in any shape or form is remote.

There are people who swear blind that the Loch Ness monster exists regardless of all the evidence to the contrary, but a fence post bobbing up and down in the Loch does the trick. Similarly there are people who swear blind that God exists and the Bible is fact, yet there isn’t one blind bit of evidence to support such theories.

Biblical tales are really no different than Loch Ness monster tales, just the era is different.

My studies and research shows that religious people are not exactly rocket scientists, they tend to be below average intelligence, and also have a tendency to be more violent than non-believers. In some cases, the more violent the person, the more religious they are. I suspect that the vast majority of religious people are well below average intelligence.

I wonder if trying to improve the intellectual standard of our global community, would help remove the various religions from our culture, and thereby improve happiness and peace for humanity.

All religious preachers just pump their one theory (God exists) down our throats.

When the science community makes a discovery or modifies a theory they publish a paper for all to view, speculate on, and debate. Invariably such discoveries open up our simplistic minds and expand our horizons. Examples would be the works of Einstein and Hawking, to name a very small sample.

So why do preachers have to continually pump their one theory (God exists) down our throats. Why do they stand on street corners and hand out leaflets, yell at passers by, gather huge crowds and push unsuspecting victims over in the belief they will be cured of whatever mental or physical ailment invades them, if they just believe in the theory of God.

Why can’t the believers of religious theory just behave in a decent manner, in much the same way as the scientific community does. The answer to all of these questions is simple. They know their theory of God is wrong, and saturation mental and verbal bombardment is the only way they can convince people, and they do it directly or indirectly for money.

Answer 4

Right but remember that the history of these books is well over 3000 years old. They borrow from the earliest known texts and extrapolate them into their own stories. (e.g., Gilgamesh = Noah...)
As for the 333 citations of the Messiah, it is helpful to remember that if you have the information before-hand, it is relatively easy to "fulfill" these prophecies that have been written before, especially if you have financial backing. (e.g., Yeshua bin-Joseph and Joseph of Aramea...).

Many of the predictions about end-times and Apocalypse refer to historical events that were actually current; ideas that gave people hope when they were going through hard times in the church. (e.g., the numerological sequence that defines 666 is the Hebrew equivalent of Neron Caesar- Nero, Emperor of Rome at the time of the greatest Christian oppression...)

Like all of these "predictions," words are taken out of context, other verses are so vague as to be laughable and people interpret these things to their own situation. In all honestly, ever single generation since the beginning of time has believed that their times were defined as the end.
Take it all with a grain of salt. Don't read too much into it.

Answer 5

So what's your point?

Those are all fair assumptions to make about the future, they are very general in nature and almost certain to come to pass at some point in the vast history of man. The real question is how many prophecies in the Bible haven't come to pass? In addition the one you list about the messiah coming... that hasn't for certain been fulfilled... the idea of Jesus being the messiah is still a matter of opinion. I could make a prophecy right here right now that the united states will fall... its certain that somewhere down the road the U.S. will cease to exist.

Answer 6

the phrase "Bible facts" is an oxymoron

by defintion faith cannot be factual. Additionally, prophesy is subjective. That's why the same prophesy has been used by different people at different times in an effort to prove different things.

PS: love it when people start yelling on a board like this - did we hit a nerve? Honestly G-d doesn't need your help. And YHWH historically was nothing more than a jealous tribal war "god" that was intended for a group of nomads.

Answer 7

You are using this public place to preach, so don't get offended when people get rude with you.

And your "prophecies" have all been "proven" after the events they are supposed to predict. Not ONCE has anyone ever used the bible to forcast AHEAD of time any event. All of the things you sate are somehow fit into things predicited in the bible - the events are edited to fit the predictions instead of the predictions being used ahead of time!

The predictions are all vauge and only when looking backwards do people find any validity - find me one passage that predicts something, set a time to it and then I'll believe in your bible. ANd so far EVERY perosn who has done that with me has NO explination when their predicitons fall flat - I've kept records of every person who has told me when something would happen based on the bible and ALL of them for over 20 years has fallen flat. 0% success.

Answer 8

That's undeniably true. That's why this should give us indication that the prophecies which have not yet been fulfilled, probably will be in the near future. All the more incentive to be a Christian. Too bad not everyone sees it that way though.

Answer 9

All I can say is that I am a Christian, and believe that we are living in the last days. For the unbelievers, I will pray for you all. And when Jesus Christ comes back, will you all believe then? Will the Bible still be a work of fiction? God Bless.

Answer 10

The bible's prophecies are pretty accurate but if you were to check and compare them with Islamic Prophecies, I'd let u decide but i think Islamic Prophecies are more accurate and they might have a different point of view. But ur getting to a point there

Answer 11

I say, strap yourselves in fellas, it's going to be a bumpy ride. The Lord is soon to come, the Holy Roman Pagan Satanic Church will reveal the anti-Christ, the red heifer has already been born in Israel and is now 4 years old, Israel has commenced a war that is righteous and soon will rip apart the middle east, (it's about time), and I can't wait to see HIS face!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!