Don't you it is too much coincidence?
2007-08-06 05:20:37 · 19 answers · asked by geeks_gadgets 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
http://www.aboutbibleprophecy.com/accuracy.htm
2007-08-06 05:43:07 · update #1
Jesus alone fulfilled over 456 specific prophecies about the Messiah. This is hardly the stuff of coincidence.
Peter Stoner, Professor Emeritus of Science at Westmont College, determined that the odds of one person fulfilling only eight of the prophecies, was one in ten to the seventeenth power.
2007-08-06 05:26:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's interesting how everyone is answering with the general "the prophecies are vague" without giving specific examples. Coincidence?
2007-08-06 05:27:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately most ppl don't even know what prophecy exists in the bible, and if they do then they only have a v.vague knowledge of it. Of course if understood properly then it's way beyond coincidence..e.g Israel becoming a nation in one day, as predicted.
2007-08-06 05:26:17 · answer #3 · answered by Dan 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Where on this Earth has so many coincidences? :) The bible is written by many authors over the centuries and how would the prophets know what the future would be unless God choose to reveal to them? Lets wait for the Book of Revelations to prove itself, but by then, would it be too late? :)
2007-08-06 05:29:21 · answer #4 · answered by Amber 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Neither. I think stuff happened and stories were made to fit into the author's view of things.
For example, there's Noah's Ark and Gilgamesh. Historians have decided they're both about the same event but have different characters and gods involved.
'Prophecies' about future events are vague enough to fit anywhere, anytime. Watch a show about Nostradamus or Cayce. It will tell you the same thing.
2007-08-06 05:26:42 · answer #5 · answered by strpenta 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
God himself makes a busted prophecy in the Bible. God warns Adam that, should he eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, ON THAT DAY he will die. Wrong, Adam lived another 939 years. God got it wrong. Oh, well, maybe God was just a teen-ager then.
And, Christians, don't make tiresome apologetics like claiming that 1,000 years is like a day to God, because then you'll have to explain how plants were created the day before any Sun to sustain them. Do plants last 1,000 years without sun? I didn't think so...
Silly Christians, myths are for kids!
2007-08-06 05:28:16 · answer #6 · answered by PIERRE S 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You could take the prophecies in the bible, and because they are so vague, you could easily apply them to any 100 year period in the last 1000 years.
Which is precisely why people in each generation since the dawn of Christianity have thought of themselves as the "last generation".
2007-08-06 05:27:09 · answer #7 · answered by Apollo's Revenge 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The interpretations of "prophetic" occurrences predicted in the bible are pretty gray.
You can take any significant event of recent times and find something in the bible, twist it a little and make it prophecy
2007-08-06 05:24:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Have you read Nostradamus - he got more right than the bible.
It's pure coincidence. If you say enough things will happen, some of them are bound to, not to mention the likelyhood of the 'predictions' being misinterpreted to suit the times.
An atheist
2007-08-06 05:27:31 · answer #9 · answered by Grotty Bodkin is not dead!!! 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
WHICH specific parts, and show me how they can't be interpreted in ANY other way. From experience, the bible prophecies are vague and generally fit whatever you want them to fit. And you are not exactly an unbiased observer. You have a stake in wanting them to be true.
2007-08-06 05:25:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋