Nostradamus fulfilled too many prophecies to be wrong?

Question

If only the bible could have as many prophecies fulfilled as Nostradamus did. Wouldn't that be great?

Answer 1

Nostradamus in fact never said that his prediction will be a 100% correct. his QTs are certainly not news reports yet they are not as simple as "something is gonna happen next year."

however, does the bible ever mentioned anything that could be closely related to WW1 or WW2 or 911?

Answer 2

Nostradamus wrote vague prophecies. Over time, events have occurred which have coincided with some of his prophecies. I believe in coincidence. Like the coincidence that books about him sell quite well, particularly after large disasters.

Answer 3

ACtually it did alot better, but Im sure you have an answer for that all ready. Point is, dont justify it to me...be ready to explain it to G-d on your day of judgement.

Prophecies

The Bible stands alone among literature. Prophecies written hundreds of years before an event have been fulfilled with 100% accuracy. There are approximately 2500 prophecies in the Bible, 2000 of which already have been completely fulfilled -- the remaining 500 speak of future events.

The chance of any one man fulfilling just eight prophecies has been calculated by Peter W. Stoner in Science Speaks at 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000 -- yet 60 major Old Testament prophecies, having 270 ramifications were fulfilled by the life of Jesus. An example of the precisely fulfilled prophecies include the place of His birth, Bethlehem (prophesied in Micah 5:2, fulfilled in Luke 2:4-7); that He would be born of a virgin (prophesied in Isaiah 4:17, fulfilled in Luke 1:26-31); that He would be despised and rejected by Jews (prophesied in Isaiah 53:3, fulfilled in John 1:1, Luke 23:18); that He would be betrayed by a friend (Judas) for thirty pieces of silver cast on the floor of the Temple and used to buy a potter's field (prophesied in Zechariah 11:11-13, fulfilled in Matthew 27:3-10).

Fulfilled prophecy extends to the present day -- consider the people of Israel. In Genesis 12:2,3 and 13:13-15, God promised Abraham a great nation, a great name and a land that will belong to his descendants forever and through Abraham, that all families of the earth will be blessed. At the time, Abraham was 75 years old and his wife was barren. The prophecy was fulfilled when Abraham was 90 years old (Genesis 21:2) when his wife Sarah miraculously bore him a son. Over the next several hundred years, the nation promised to Abraham appeared (Exodus 1:7).
Later, through Moses (Deut. 28-33), God warned Israel that He will use other nations to remove them from their land if they are unfaithful to Him. He predicted that they would eventually be scattered across the whole earth and would find no rest. He also promised to bring them back to their land. Israel was unfaithful. King Nebuchadnezzar took people captive to Babylon, then burned the city and the Temple. God then allowed the Israelites to return to the land (Ezra 1). Later, in AD 70, Titus the Roman also destroyed the city of Jerusalem, scattering the people. In AD 1948, Israel became a nation and the people began to return to their homeland. They have since survived several conflicts. We think of the United States as having a long history, yet it has been in existence for only 200 years. Israel has been a people for more than 4,000 years.

2 Peter 1:20-21 describes how Bible prophecy can be so accurate: "Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit."

Being a Hebrew prophet in ancient times was a serious and unenviable position. The prophet was purporting to speak for God and the penalty for any error was death. "But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, must be put to death." -- Deut. 18:20. Prophets had to be 100% accurate. Deuteronomy 18:21-22 gives a test to determine whether the prophet is speaking for God: "You may say to yourselves, "How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD?" If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously."

Answer 4

Actually his prophecies are pretty vague given the time span since they were written it would be almost impossible not to get a few at least close to accurate. He wrote many many more that were wrong.

Answer 5

Well, if you noticed, I can make prophecies pretty dang well too:

"You will die in the next one hundred years."

"You will have sex at least once before your death."

"You will take at least 3 steps before your death."

"You will talk at least twice before your death."

"Someone will die on the same day you do."

"Something important will happen this year."

You see, its actually quite easy: Just say something that is likely to be fulfilled or will 100% be fulfilled. Give it a try.

Answer 6

Nostradamus also believed the dissolution of the Catholic church would be the end of the world. No god sits in an ivory tower and says such and such will happen on such and such day, and neither do I.

Answer 7

You need to really research Nostradamus for yourself personally, and then ask yourself would you want him to tell you which
number to bet your life on

Answer 8

I haven't read much about them, but some. I agree that they are very vague, and there are a lot of them, if you put those two properties together, then it's very easy to believe some are true.

Answer 9

Actually his prophecies were kinda vague.

Answer 10

have you ever read them? They are extremely vague and almost always have errors in them. For example look at the quatrain that supposedly predicts the rise of Hitler, it is REALLY vague, he doesn't even say Hilter, he says HISTER.