Atheists: How can you deny biblical accuracy and time prophecies?

Question

The Old and New Testaments predicted several supernatural events would take place prior to the end of the world. How could the biblical writers be so sure of these things hundreds of years before the event happened?

Daniel 2 and 7 depicts the coming rise and fall of nations before they happened. The prophesy was exact in its fulfillment with only event to be fulfilled. That is the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ to establish his eternal kingdom. (Daniel 2:27, 36-45).

Special note: Babylon, Medo-persia, Greece, Rome were all world ruling empires that once ruled the world but they all fell as Daniel the prophet of God predicted would happen. How could Daniel have accurately predicted such an accurate account of the rise and fall of nations? The next major event according to the prophesy is the coming of Christ(Daniel 2:45).

No fairytale here. It all happened in history exactly as God revealed it to his servant. The prophet Daniel.

God exists. Make no mistake about this.

Answer 1

History repeats itself.

Answer 2

When the Council of Trent (1545-1563) finally sat down and arranged what would, thence forth, be regarded as the official Christian Bible it was pretty easy to pick and choose what material suited their purpose. In addition, there are prophecies -- like those of Nostradamus -- so vague and open ended that they can be fit into explaining a variety of scenarios.

For example: During the Cold War of the 80's people like George Herbert Armstrong and other evangelists were referenceing this obscure passage about how the bear (interpreted as Russia) would descend from the north to fight with the eagle (meaning the U.S.) and the final Tribulations would begin.

Well, the Soviet Union obviously did not invade the United States. In fact, it just collapsed from within. We're all still here. Jesus did not show up on time and nobody talks about that verse anymore, about the bear and the eagle.

Answer 3

well the thing is that no matter what Daniel or any "prophet" would have said, he was just stating the obvious. Nations fall, you don't need a prophet to tell you that. And the other thing is that the Bible is not a history or science book. It is a story book with some lessons that some idiot people like to take for truth. If the story of Cinderella was found in there, I'm guessing that you would also try to make people believe that was true.

Answer 4

Bible prophecies are vague, in many cases written after the event, and even then not historically accurate. Of course nations rise and fall, it has happened and will happen again, and that is some big prophecy? And as far as the second coming, if you are attuned into taking the bible literally then his second coming is long, long, long past due. The bible is a collection of parables, stories, fairie tales. It is no more a book of history than the ancient mythologies of the Greeks or the Romans.

Answer 5

Sorry, but writing a story about a guy who's been dead for decades, if he existed, and having that story mesh with earlier predictions is not that great a feat. And they didn't even get all the predictions right. Some stuff Jesus did was to fulfill misreadings of previous prophecies, like when he rode two asses into town.

At the time of Daniel, it was commonplace for nations to rise and fall. There are still nations, today, that rise and fall. Look at the USSR as an example (which nobody predicted, btw). What Daniel did was, at best, arm-chair politicking. And you can still consider Rome, i.e the Vatican as a ruling power. Greece is still kicking, too. Persia, i.e. Iran, is still a fairly major power. So even these predictions were partial successes, at best.

Answer 6

Mickey Mouse could make exactly the same prediction today and be sure of being a hundred percent accurate.

Similarly there will be at least two major volcanic eruptions, several major famines and a pestilence will take many lives during this century.

Yet another bad Christian attempt to usurp science.

When will you recognise the harm you do to Christianity with such inane postings?

Answer 7

Um the bible predicting what would happen later in the bible isn't exactly evidence of anything. Especially since you can't actually positively prove that a historical Jesus existed (ie there is no contemporary confirmation)

The you have the ones that failed:

http://www.goatstar.org/failed-prophecies/

Wow who would of thought that empires rise and fall.....

You will meet a stranger and go on a trip soon....

Answer 8

i would not call that "pin element accuracy". He did not state the date of whom could be doing the killings. it would look sensible to me that Jesus could have been predicting something that replaced into unavoidable. It replaced into person-friendly expertise that the Romans did not particularly like the Jews. it is likewise person-friendly expertise that those that have been Christian in those days have been additionally despised with the aid of the Romans. And, with the aid of fact the Jewish faith is the commencing place to Christianity, it would additionally be sensible to think of that the Romans might attack the Jewish places of worship as some variety of punishment to the two events. Granted, it is using the perception of background and analyzing the finished subject many eons interior the destiny. All in all, that is not something extra advantageous than a prophecy of Nostradamus. If Jesus had reported the time, the day, the twelve months, etc....then i might evaluate this pin element accuracy. EDIT: you certainly had me going there for a at the same time as, till you began to quote different issues stated, and attempting to coach them to this occasion. That tells me which you do not completely have faith it the two, and which you're frantically searching for something to be cohesive alongside with your concept.

Answer 9

I predict that new nations will come and go in the next 2000 years. Holy cow I'm a prophet! Worship me. Any idiot that can read can predict that nations will "rise and fall." Its fairly obvious thats going to happen. Thats like saying "tomorrow many people will be born and many will die."

Answer 10

Back then, civilizations tended to rise and fall. It isn't hard to predict something when there is already a history of it happening.

The Bible doesn't prove the existence of God.

Answer 11

You are extremely confused with regards to the historical time line.

Danial, if he existed in the arbitrary time frame given him by biblical scholars, did so after several of the quoted civilizations had already fallen. I know hindsight is 20 20 , but that's pushing it a bit.