I'm having a religious arguement and I need some Biblical predictions that were proven to be untrue.?

Question

Preferably with the biblical text itself. Thank you

Details: People please don't say "the whole thing is true" or untrue, I need a specific thing that they said would happen and didn't happen.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

I'd be more inclined to suggest that all the predictions are open to interpretation.

The Battle of Armageddon took place 18 years ago. But I doubt the bible referenc'd suggest it was a British Tank war AND that CNN was there.

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Answer 3

Here's a good starting point (two, actually):

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Failed Prophecies
http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/prophecies.html
Excerpt:

Some prophecies were accurate because, quite simply, they were written after the event it purports to have foreseen. The Book of Daniel is a good example of this. It pretends to have been written during the time of the exile, that is around the sixth century BCE. Today, it is has been shown that Daniel was actually written around the second century BCE.

Other prophecies were not prophecies at all, but have readings forced into them by believers. The “virgin birth” prophecy of Jesus found in Isaiah 7:14 is one such case.

Still other prophecies fulfilled events that never occurred! In fact the supposed events were constructed purely from the Old Testament through a method called midrash. Many of the messianic prophecies supposedly fulfilled in Jesus' life are of this type.

Thus, not only are many “fulfilled” prophecies suspect, many a time the prophets simply got their prophecies wrong!

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The Failure of Daniel's Prophecies
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/chris_sandoval/daniel.html
Excerpt:

The prophecies of the Book of Daniel have fascinated readers and created controversy for the past two thousand years. Evangelical Christians believe that the prophet Daniel, an official in the courts of Near-Eastern emperors in the sixth century BC, foretold the future of the world from his own time to the end of the age. Actually, the book was written in Palestine in the mid-second century BC by an author who expected God to set up his everlasting kingdom in his own near future, as we read in the mainline commentaries and Bible dictionaries

Answer 4

A good one would be Isiah 53.5 as that is usually quoted as an accurate prediction:

"He was pierced through for our transgressions."

Is usually taken as a prediction of when the Roman soldier pierced Jesus' side with a spear. Wow, that's pretty impressive - it said that we would be and he was!. But read on. Not very far, in fact in the same verse in the very next phrase:

"He was crushed for our iniquities"

No He wasn't. Jesus was never crushed, for our iniquities or for any other reason.

Answer 5

The Bible says that Earth is 5000 years old, scientists have shown that it is much older.

The Bible does not mention dinosaurs, how can you explain that?

The miracles that took place during Moise's lifetime have been scientifically explained.

There are lots and lots of lies in the Bible. Starting with the first verse.

Answer 6

There are those that haven't come to fruition yet, otherwise they have all come to be fulfilled. There are hundreds of them just on the birth of our Saior alone, and each and every one of them was explicit and to the point and came true hundreds of years after they were prophesied. Go figure. Not bad for a "fairy tale". There isn't another book anywhere that can hold it's own against the Bible.

Answer 7

You're going to be searching for a long time. There aren't any.

There are people who CLAIM there are failed prophecies, but it's not true. As for the idea that Daniel "wasn't written until the second century A.D., then how is it possible that there are copies that date back to the 1st century A.D., and it's entirely possible that those same copies date back to around the 1st century B.C.?

The only "failed" prophecies are the ones who haven't come to be yet. Don't believe everything you read on the internet. Try reading the prophecies yourself to see if they came true or not.

I did, and I found that they DID. Think for yourself.

Answer 8

There's nothing wrong in stating what you believe or disbelieve, but to argue the point is a waste of your time.

Answer 9

Not much in the bible is true. But this may be an aid to your argument; http://godisimaginary.com/

Answer 10

The bible has been proven to be true over and over.The discovery of chariot wheels at the bottom of the Red Sea for example.

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