Moses foretold (with some additions by Jeremiah and Jesus) that the ancient Jewish nation would be conquered twice and that the people would be carried off as slaves each time, first by the Babylonians (for a period of 70 years), and then by a fourth world kingdom (which we know as Rome). The second conqueror, Moses said, would take the Jews captive to Egypt in ships, selling them or giving them away as slaves to all parts of the world. Both of these predictions were fulfilled to the letter, the first in 607 B.C. and the second in 70 A.D. God's spokesmen said, further, that the Jews would remain scattered throughout the entire world for many generations, but without becoming assimilated by the peoples or of other nations, and that the Jews would one day return to the land of Palestine to re-establish for a second time their nation (Deut 29; Isaiah 11:11-13; Jere 25:11; Hos3:4-5 and Luke 21:23-24)
Do YOUR fairy tales do that?????
2007-10-17 12:57:20 · 13 answers · asked by Eartha Q 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Bible is not fairitales and myths, Bible is a collection of books. Moses did not write first five books of it, the truth is that Moses probably did not write any of them. Try googlinf up for the theory of deuteronomistic history (currently the most popular theory amongst biblical schoolars).
Most of the bible writtings was actually writen AFTER or during the exhile... However, this still doens't make it a myth, it makes it a history book. Prophets are what you should base your foretelling arguments on - Isaiah, Daniel, .... Let's not forget our dear sweet Jesus!
2007-10-17 13:05:43 · answer #1 · answered by pAvLe 2 · 6⤊ 0⤋
OK, so I took the time to read each of the passages you referenced here (sorry, my Christan mythology is a little rusty) and here's what your offering us: Lev 13: 45-46 says that you should more or less leave someone visibly sick to himself--pretty common sensical Leviticus in general and Numbers 19 are religious directions to various practices. To suggest that they were designed for health reasons specifically is specious. Though I can't argue with Deut. 23:12-13--the "don't poop where you live" verse! Sorry that's not science. Eccl. 1:9--"Nothing new under the sun"--never has a cheesier metaphor been asked to serve the needs of science Eccl. 3:14-15--"I know that everything God does will remain forever; there is nothing to add to it and there is nothing to take from it." (Amer. Stand. version) More metaphorical rhetoric. I got no science here. Water cycle--Eccl 1:7--it tries, but it's wrong. It says that the rivers must flow both to and from the sea since the sea isn't "full" OK, that's science, but it's wrong. Iss. 55:10--that snow and water falls down but doesn't fall up to the sky is entirely observational. Not really science. Partial credit for reference that the water from rain is related to the growth of plants. Gravity--Job--That God makes the Earth hang from nothing and binds the stars together sounds like magic to me. No scientific forces at work that I can see. So you get 1/2 a point for the Eccl 1:7 verse--an attempt to describe why the sea isn't full by the flow of the rivers--and 1/2 for Issiah and his water/plant relationship, but that's it. The rest is just silliness. Let me know any time you need more help translating your precious mythology for you.
2016-05-23 05:52:17 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually, you can get specific dates of events if you learn the numerical values of hebrew letters. the torah predicted the 1947 execution of ten nazi officers, and it was right down to the specific year and holiday during which this took place (purim). isaiah predicted Christ's crucifixion 400 years before crucifixion was invented by the persians and 700 years before He was crucified by the romans. jewish tradition maintains that there's a hidden code in the torah that predicts the future and holds all the secrets of the universe. isaac newton spent most of his life trying to figure it out. some famous mathematician (his name escapes me right now) figured out some things about this code (in 2004, if i remember right), and the chances of the torah code saying some of the things it did/ does were so slim that even the US pentagon took it into account. there are clergymen now who specialize in interpretting biblical prophecy who have accurately predicted various wars in the middle east using the bible. these same guys say to look for the antichrist to come from iraq, but he's be a member of the club of rome (a political organization). seriously, if these guys are right- and they have been dead on with their past predictions- we're real real close to armageddon. true, some prophecies seem vague at first or second or fifteenth glance, but to someone who knows how to decipher this stuff, it's a lot more specific than it seems.
2007-10-17 21:36:09 · answer #3 · answered by That Guy Drew 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes how weird, a Special Holy book called The Bible, which is often referred to on here as a fairy-tale, so many of the prophesies came true and are in action as we speak, - to fulfill every last Word that is written in this Beautiful Book.
And for those who don't have one, it can be found in the Non-Fiction section of the Library.
Beaut question Eartha Q!!!
2007-10-17 21:03:20 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Most of the Torah was compiled *after* the exile. It was not written by Moses.
By the way, the Jews sorta got crushed by the Assyrians before the Babylonians, and then they got crushed again by the Persians and Greeks (oh, how they hated the Greeks!) long before Rome even came into the picture. Even if Moses said they'd only get beaten twice, he would have been wrong.
As for the return of Israel, well, self-fulfilling prophecies are pretty meaningless. When you settle someplace specifically because a book says you will, that's not a prediction.
2007-10-17 13:06:58 · answer #5 · answered by Minh 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Great point! And there's 365 specific prophesies in the Bible that were fufilled. How could that possibly happen randomly?
2007-10-17 13:35:53 · answer #6 · answered by Petina 5 · 7⤊ 0⤋
...only the Bible doesn't predict the Jews would return to the land of "Palestine" but that they would return to the land of "ISRAEL"!
2007-10-18 13:35:48 · answer #7 · answered by 2ctruth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible is not a myth, but those who do not believe it will say that it was written after the fact which it was not, but that is what they will say.
2007-10-17 13:11:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
How difficult is it to make predictions after the fact.
The bible was not compiled till the forth century AD.
Love and blessings Don
2007-10-17 13:04:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
You're kidding right? Did you ever consider the possibility that someone when back and changed the book after events so that it looked like a prediction came true? Did you ever consider that most so called "predictions" are in fact so vague that many events could fit?
2007-10-17 13:06:07 · answer #10 · answered by atheist 6 · 2⤊ 6⤋