*Atheists* Don't you find it ironic that GOD predicted that many of his flock would reject him?

Question

Just like you are doing here before Jesus returns to earth?

GOD knew you would reject him when you still believed in him..
Don't you have to admit to yourselves that what you are doing by professing GOD does not exsist is written in the Holy Bible
as a Prophetic message...

Answer 1

"Crimson and clover
Over and over . . . ."

I love Jimmy Eat World!

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The Atheists are going to have a field day with this.

I'm retreating to the safety of Entertainment!

Answer 2

Unfortunately, the devil is in the details (pun not intended).

We know that by the way God is defined, he is all knowing. This means, for example, that a thousand years ago, he *knew* some of us, like you would be believers, and others amongst us like many who have replied to your post would not be. Given that God never makes mistakes, long before the disbelievers ever existed, the fact was established that they would reject Him because God was/is all-knowing and knew this.

There are many of us who, however hard we may or may not try, cannot become believers because God already knew the absolute fact that we would reject him.

Then again if there is no such all-knowing God, aren't the athiests then the ones who are correct, and the rest are just like patients who get "cured" by placebos.

Keep this historical fact in mind - people of religion readily admit that other than their own God, the thousands of other Gods that have been worshipped by billions before have been created by man (ancient Greeks, Egyptians, you name it). So what is more likely? Your God is unique in being real, or your God is another one of the thousands that have been created by man throughout history?

Answer 3

"God" predicted no such thing. There isn't any god.

The Bible says that people would reject the Christians' claims. That's hardly going out on a limb. I predict that if I stood on the street corner and preached that some kid in my town built the Earth over a weekend a few hundred years ago, people would reject my claims as well. Does that make me a sage prophet?

You really should have put some thought into this instead of posting such drivel. It may appeal to liars like the guy above me, but honest, thoughtful people simply aren't interested in this kind of childish BS.

Answer 4

No, but I find it wonderfully ironic to see a self-defending meme operating in such a way that the person executing it does not realise what they are doing.

Of couse there is rejection. What you have not accounted for is whether that is due to God's prediction, or increasing awareness of God's non-existence.Since BOTH options would account for the behaviour, the behaviour is not evidence for EITHER condition. No differentiation is possible on this particular ground.

"What are you doing? "Painting the road with tiger- repelling paint" "But there aren't any tigers around here!" "Good stuff, isn't it?"

Answer 5

All that says is that the people who came up with that prediction knew that there is nothing on earth that attracts 100% of its people. I'm sure the Koran says something similar. What dumbfounds me are the geniuses that believe it.

I once heard of an author who wrote a book and in order to sell that book he said that anyone who did not like the book was an idiot. Since people tend to be stupid, they all flocked to buy the book because they did not want to be labeled as an idiot. In reality it was a brilliant sales plan that worked. Sound familiar?

Answer 6

I predict that large numbers of people will eat food prepared by other people at noon.

Am I a prophet or am I just reacting to what normal people would do? The statement is a self fulfilling prophecy and one of the key ingredients to propaganda. I only have to prove some people have eaten out or even that someone else cooked.

The statement in the bible is of course the exact same style of propaganda. Prophecies are only ever proven long after they occur and when the correct situation arises that fits the requirements. If it was a true prophecy then it would list a date and time. Until then it was a bunch of old guys deciding that they hated women, jews, and romans and writing a book.

Answer 7

The bible is a book. "Great Expectations" is a book. "V" is a book. All three have some external evidence to support the assertion that some (not all) of the events described did happen.

Does it not occur to you that there were people in ancient times who regarded the stuff spouted by Jewish "prophets" and Christian proselytisers as nonsense? Does it not occur to you that the people who wrote the stuff in the bible were aware of this? They would have had to have been extra stupid not to know that, so they included it in their book to try to fool the ignorant and the stupid.

If I don't believe you, your going on about bible prophecy is not going to convince me. I don't believe in prophets. I don't believe "god" "wrote" the bible. It is just one of many religious books from ancient times till now all written by humans, and that is all.

Answer 8

It's a classic technique. You provide positive incentives for joining (salvation), punishment for not (hell), and additionally demean those who still refuse to join (the well known 'fools' statement). It's nothing deep. If it's true, then it's true. If not, it's hardly a unique form of manipulation.

Answer 9

Totally agree with you!!! God knows everything before it happens,and throughout history,everything Jesus predicted is coming to pass. Amen sister!!!

Answer 10

That is something easy to predict. If I predict that the sun will rise tomorrow, is that ironic? No. If I predict that not everyone will believe in the same god, is that ironic? No.