Of Course Prophetic events happened in the Bible- Do you really think human beings would of embraced the Bible (4000yrs) if it just was a fable made up for certain people at a certain time?
Bible tells us the problem that the skeptics have is not one of the mind. It's a defect of the heart, the scourge of original sin. John 3:19-20
Daniel 9:26, the prophet said that a future ruler over the land of Israel would destroy Jerusalem and the Temple. Daniel said this would happen after an anointed one (messiah) is "cut off," which means "rejected" or "killed." A few centuries later, the Romans had taken control of the land of Israel, Jesus announced himself as the Messiah, and the Romans crucified him. Forty years later, the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple
2007-09-07 06:33:40 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm putting my money on Harry Potter
2007-09-07 06:39:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 4⤋
Sweetheart, I just checked John 3:19-20 and as far as I can tell it's just the usual meaningless Middle English gobbledygook. One thing is absolutely certain: those particular scriptures do not mention either the mind or the heart. If they did, I would be quick to point out that humanity has known since William Harvey published his findings in 1628 that the heart is merely a blood pump, nothing more. Attributing an atheist's lack of faith to a defective blood pump only makes you sound like your education stopped in the early seventeenth century. Furthermore, Original Sin was invented about 390 AD by St. Augustine and has nothing whatever to do with reality. (As a woman, you should be especially sensitive to the price all women have paid for Augustine's misogynistic fantasy.) I have no quarrel with the historical events of Daniel, but honestly don't see what that has to do with skepticism, except that Daniel was certainly NOT a skeptic. Basically, I don't clearly understand your question, and suspect it's because I can't think in such archaic terms -- especially the heart business. Sorry.
2007-09-07 07:26:57 · answer #2 · answered by Diogenes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We do not know the sources or the credibility of any of the sources in the bible. I find passages (some) to be quite beautiful but we do have to dissect fact from fiction and the fact is when oral tradition was the way people communicated then there are bound to be errors or metaphors or reinterpretations of events. The bible cannot be taken literally. I have great reverence for a holy book that is valued by so many but that doesn't mean I believe everything that it says. Is that a defect of the heart? I don't believe so. I'm using my brain and my intuition. My heart shouldn't be involved in reading any sacred text. Questioning is a good thing.
2007-09-07 06:43:53 · answer #3 · answered by Yogini 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Now, there's a new one on me! A defect of the heart, eh? Gosh, and I always thought a heart defect was called an infarction. Son of a gun!
Oh, by the way: did you know that anthropologists have found that all those "prophecies" you mentioned were documented years AFTER the actual events? Hmmm - kinda hard to take the "prophecy" claims seriously in light of that...
2007-09-07 06:53:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The bible is only 1600 years old. That is when the Roman Emperor made Christianity the official Roman religion and told the leaders of the Christian church's to get their acts together, agree on a single dogma, stop using all the different copies of scriptures, agree on a codified set of writings, and get rid of anything that didn't agree with them. The church then used its power and influence to keep the christian nations ignorant of anything that went against what they taught for a thousand years until the Renaissance when men started to question the church and the dogma it was forcing on the population. Today people still struggle to free themselves from the teachings of oppresive religious control and gain knowledge of the real world and not stay stuck in old myths.
2007-09-07 06:46:58 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Did you know that in the first three books of the Wheel of Time, over 40 prophesies were made that came true in later books of the series, published years later?
The first life story of Jesus was written by someone who claimed to be "Mark". It was written around 90 CE. Since no life story for Jesus existed until then, he was able to come up with whatever he wanted. the story was a deliberate attempt to fit Jesus to Torah prophesy. But the thing is - the Greek translation that "Mark" used was not very good, leading to some embarrassing mistakes, such as fitting Jesus to scriptures that were not prophesies, or were mistranslated.
2007-09-07 06:44:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Hindu religion is older than all the Abrahamic cults.
So, by your argument, since it has existed longer it must be the real truth.
When are you going to convert?
As for the prophecies in the bible, does it not concern you at all that both the prophecies and the description of the events were written down well after any event actually happened?
This is like me writing now that my great grandfather predicted that the Allied forces would win WWII.
2007-09-07 06:43:03 · answer #7 · answered by Simon T 7 · 8⤊ 0⤋
"Do you really think human beings would of embraced the Bible (4000yrs) if it just was a fable made up for certain people at a certain time?"
Yes, humans for the most part, aren't that bright.
If you were taught for generations, that LOTR was real history that happened thousands and thousands of years ago, people would believe it. I mean, they believe Joesph Smith, and L. Ron Hubbard.
Come on. You really can't think this is an argument.
"Do you really think human beings would of embraced the Bible (4000yrs) if it just was a fable made up for certain people at a certain time?"
2007-09-07 06:42:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
If you're asserting that the Bible is true because so many people think it is ("Do you really think human beings would of embraced the Bible (4000yrs) if it just was a fable made up for certain people at a certain time?"), then doesn't it stand to reason that Roman, Greek and Norse myths are also true?
2007-09-07 06:38:47 · answer #9 · answered by OhKatie! 6 · 11⤊ 2⤋
Yes! The bible was written to control people and contains just enough truth to hide the lies. Of course nobody would believe a completely made up story.
Compare the modern stories of Dan Brown - a master-class expert at mixing fact with fiction. He has single-handedly with one book completely changed the world view of the Illuminati. One man, one book. How much more effective could twenty such writers be at this? As effective, perhaps, as the writers of the bible were.
Are you implying that you have no original sin because you believe? That's unbiblical and absurd. Also, if it is a defect of the heart (we would have no choice in that) which causes disbelief, non-believers are innocent of wilful disbelief (which would be of the mind) and therefore will all enter heaven. Did you even think this through?
2007-09-07 06:37:42 · answer #10 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 11⤊ 3⤋
yes I do believe it folks can be swayed by fear, innuendo, rumor, force
Catholicism was FORCED on the Haitian people many where slaughtered until they complied and "took faith" in it
Mexicans became Catholic wholesale after a tragedy that lead them to take up the faith that many had been resisting.
besides the bible wasn't written until decades after Jesus supposedly ascended into heaven
furthermore a whole lot of it is contradictory
if it; is so true why does one need a middle man to interpret it?
besides if "HE" needs me to believe in him why did he give me deductive reasoning?
if "He" is that powerful why does he need everyone to believe in him?
doesn't make sense
2007-09-07 06:47:50 · answer #11 · answered by creole lady 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋