Did you know that it was prophesied in the bible that Isreal would be taken away from the Isrealites and then?

Question

given back to them?

It came about, and it has never happened before or again in History...

It was also said in the Old Testament that Jesus would come, and almost everyone (even non-Christians) believes he really did exist.

Wouldnt this count as credit for the bible in terms of credibility?

Answer 1

Yes, the 1948 instant nation of Israel was the "dried bones" prophecy from the Old Testament. All fullfilled prophecy lends credit to the authenticity and authority of scripture. If you do a word search on "fulfilled bible prophecy" or "messianic prophecy" you come up with some really wonderful sites that can point you to Old Testament prophecy that have been fulfilled to the letter. Yes prophecy is strong evidence that the God of the Bible is the true God of this universe.

Answer 2

No.

It isn't hard to think that, over the course of time, a nation would be taken over by a different group of people and then taken over by another group of people later. You say it was given back to the Israelites, but there no longer were any "Israelites". It was overtaken by people who happen to follow the same religion. They chose that location for it's importance in their religion.

The OT says that a messiah would come. How could you possibly prove that this one Jesus guy was a messiah? All you have are hearsay stories about him.

You clearly miss the point of why the Bible is incredible (as in NOT credible).

Answer 3

There are 27 bibles. The catholic bibles are many, from the Vulgate (w/ Deuterocanonical Books 382 advert) because of the fact the tips of trent 1564, some 13 variations or updates have been accomplished as much as 2010. extra study would be contemporary in wikipedia: Catholic bibles section. interesting to be conscious that different church homes and revisions of the Bible are some sixty 4 diverse variations.

Answer 4

The original promise to Abraham was that through the seed of Isaac all the nations of the earth would be blessed. True to the prophecy, the relationship God had with ancient Israel produced the messiah, and the royal heir to the throne of the Kingdom of God. Every one now benefits, (if they just take the opportunity).

The opportunity for a special relationship with God is now open to anyone who wants to exercise faith in the ransomer Jesus Christ.

That said....look at the destruction of Israel by the Roman Army in 70CE. So terrible was that destruction that Josephus (Jewish historian) reports that over 1.1 million people were killed! almost 100,000 were taken captive. Many of those taken captive were tortured and killed on the road.....and the rest were hauled all over the then-known world to be made slaves. VERY IMPORTANT POINT: all Jewish records and genealogies were then totally destroyed. No "Jew" today can prove he is related to Abraham, and yet the ancient record is intact that Jesus is the messiah.

After WWII and the Nazi persecution of the Jews, the UN and the world leaders set up a secular nation of Israel. This is not the "Kingdom" of Israel and has nothing to do with any Bible restoration prophecy. People today think it is according to prophecy, but they are seriously mistaken. Any restoration prophecies that really pertain to literal Israel were fulfilled long ago when they were released from Babylonian captivity. Any newer prophecies are fulfilled in a new Israel which is not the literal nation of Israel, but rather a spiritual nation of people made up of every nation and tongue today. Their Jerusalem is a heavenly one. Their capital city is a heavenly government ruled by the resurrected Christ Jesus.

Jesus Christ, near the end of his lfe, stood on the hill overlooking Jerusalem and the temple....looked down at it and condemned their relationship with God.

Now....looking at the modern situation...it gets very interesting....you see there are a great many Christian Zionists who think that Israel is still favored by God and they feel the Israelites have a god-given right to Palestine....these people have HUGE pull in the affairs of the governments which support Israel. Believe it or not this Zionist movement will do anything to prevent the current peace efforts from proceeding because they do not want Israel to loose any of their "god-given" land. (The peace plans or "road map to peace" calls for them to loose some)
These people interestingly think they are going to be raptured off the world scene so they do not have to deal with any of the nasty results of their meddling. The Christian Zionists are sadly mistaken and bad things will come from their involvement.....(They already have).

Going on.....ponder this....just 3 days before the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the US.....the United States and Israel walked out of the UN conference on racism...they turned their backs on the world community who had passed a resolution that stated that Zionism equals racism. This conference was planned for years......the Arab community for years planned to present this resolution at this very conference......I wonder.....Could it be.....that this was in fact the TRIGGER for the attacks on the WTC in New York and the pentagon? Were these Al Khada terrorists poised and waiting for this walk out? I say this is a possibility, but what do I know? This presents the question.....If the US was not so motivated by Christian Zionists and their political influence, would there have been an attack? Would Muslims have the same view that they have of Americans today?

Answer 5

Uh, i don't really understand that. Israel as in the other name for Jacob, the father of Joseph, who was Jacob's favorite son? Or Israel as in the country? How can a country be taken away?

Answer 6

Bible has a lots of versions and changes that was made from men. Its not credible anymore.

Answer 7

... the bible doesn't make outward predictions only inner representations, a picture painted of your own inner reality of mind.

Answer 8

did u know that Nostradamus made predictions that came true too...

*shrug* doesnt really mean much to me... u can make a prediction about a million things, as long as u dont give a date, your fine.

Answer 9

Absolutely :-)

Answer 10

yes.