Do you believe BIBLE prophecy?

Question

This questain is only for those that do not believe the BIBLE.
Will you please explain how a book of lies and fairytales written over a span of 2,000 year, and not added to for almost 2,000 years now, can have prophecies in it that describe modern life perfectly.
Here are a few...
Incease in knowlage,
Increase in earthquakes,
Increase in travel (only in the last few years can you have breafast in England, lunch in Itily, dinner in koria, and be in bed in Califonia all in one day.)
Wars and rumers of wars,
Incurable deseases,
Good would be called evil, and evil would be called good (is homosexuality good?)
and the bigest of all...
Israel is again a Nation.

Answer 1

First off, show me ONE lie or fairy tale. Everything to date has come true in the Bible. EVERYTHING. Not one has been proven wrong, at least historical events.

Answer 2

Incease in knowlage,
Not much of a prediction. People know more and more every year. If I predicted that there will be more knowledge next year than there is today, would you say that I am capable of making accurate prophecies? I bet not. So this is not a prophecy. It is an observation.

Increase in earthquakes
Another one. At some point this one will be true, not matter what. Learn some geology and you will learn about plate tectonics and learn that there are times when there is more geologic activity than others. Once again, if I predict that there will a period of more tornado activity in Texas, one day that will be true. Does that mean I can make accurate prophecies or am I just playing the odds.

Increase in travel (only in the last few years can you have breafast in England, lunch in Itily, dinner in koria, and be in bed in Califonia all in one day.)
How is this a prophecy? People are going to travel. As more roads are made and better travel technology is invented, people will travel more. The more people travel, the more they talk about it to those who do not travel. That will generate more people wanting to travel. As more travel happens, news of the world spreads to other parts of the world. This will also generate more desire to travel. This is more of an observation than a prophecy.

Wars and rumers of wars
Not a prophecy at all. If I were to say that in the next century there will be a war, would you believe that I am a prophet?

Incurable deseases
When the bible was written, there were diseases that were incurable that are now incurable today. There are diseases that are incurable today that will be curable tomorrow. There will be new diseases that pop up between now and then. So, how is this a prophecy? There will always be and have always been diseases that were considered incurable.

Good would be called evil, and evil would be called good (is homosexuality good?)
Back when the bible was written, there were people who questioned the christian god. That has always been true since. Morals have changed as well. I doubt that you want to go back to the system of stoning people to death in the public square for simple crimes. There are things that are acceptable today that were not acceptable 2000 years ago. The bikini comes to mind. Also, as we have learned more we have learned to look at the bible in a skeptical light and there are problems with it.

Israel is again a Nation
A self fullfilling prophecy. The bible said that Israel would be a nation again. A new nation is formed by people who believe in the prophecy and they create a nation based on the bible. That is not exactly a miracle.

So your description of fullfilled prophecies from the bible is pretty laughable. They are not prophecies, as I have pointed out. Jeane Dixon made better prophecies in her lifetime and she is regarded as a kook.

Answer 3

Something that is a surety can't really be called prophetic. These things were all true within years of being written (as well as being true _before_ they were written). Knowledge must increase, it even increased despite the attempts by the religious authorities to suppress it. Earthquakes were not unknown or even that rare, so it wasn't a far stretch to say there would be more of them. New trade routes were being opened because of the Greek and Roman conquests, and with trade comes travel. Please don't tell me that there were no wars or rumors thereof in any particular year. There were actually more incurable diseases then than there are today. And you can't tell me that saying bad things are good is a recent invention.
Please, try to do better.

Answer 4

Please enlighten me...

At what point were there never any wars, famines, earthquakes, fires, diseases? It seems like more now because news is virtually instantaneous.

Knowledge and travel have pretty much steadily increased from times long before the bible was written. It's a safe bet they'll continue to do so.

Homosexuality being evil is totally in the eye of the beholder. I reject your religion... so tell me why it's bad other than that your religion says it is?

The prophesies were written by Hebrews that had a sense of patriotism. And the re-becoming a nation thing is vague at best in the bible.

Answer 5

All prophesies are guesses . When many ideas of what's to come are expressed , those that guess right are great prophesies, all the wrong guesses are forgotten.
Increase in knowledge , increase in travel , there will be wars . These are not prophesies , they're just common sense.
Knowledge has been increasing ever since the stone age , and will continue . See , if we invent a few more things in the next couple of years , I'm a great prophet .

Answer 6

Explain to me why every holy text contains prophecies that came true, including those not from the abrahamic deity.

Then you might be on to something.

Further, there is no geological evidence there has been an increase in earthquake phenomenon. What there has been is increased population density in those areas affected by geodynamic effects as well as increased media coverage of world events such as earthquakes.

As for homosexuality -- yes, it is good, for homosexuals. It is not good for a heterosexual. Homosexuals do not claim the whole species should be gay, only that it is what they personally are. Other than your Bible and the 'ick'/'unnatural' excuses, can you find one justifiable reason homosexuality would be bad?

Answer 7

No dear.

A few examples : You spelling demonstrates that you rfirst prophecy is wrong.
There are no increase in earthquakes.
What exactly do you know about the travel habits of the bronze age middle eastern goat herders that wrote the fairy tales you are talking about ?
Wars are today at an all time low.
So are the number of incurable diseases.
Alternative life styles have always existed. Jesus chose to spend his life with twelve male friends remember ? Homophobia did not exist until very recently.
The Israel of today has not much in common with the one mentioned in the fairy tales...

Answer 8

I agree with Eleventy on these just being vague like all "prophecies." However, where did you jump to increase in travel and homosexuality is evil? Gay people are usually pretty nice and I don't remember anything ever saying that we would have increase in travel. Did you just make this list up so you would have a question?

Answer 9

Also, Jesus predicted the Son of Man would come in judgment before the generation in his hearing had died their earthly deaths. Didn't happen.

I'd like to suggest we view prophecy in a Jewish context rather than a Western one - prophecy does not mean predicting the future, it means speaking truth from without. Revelation is an apocalypse, a Jewish writing genre (i.e. Daniel) and can't be read as one would read Nostradamus. Certainly, ignoring the prohecies that didn't come to pass, like Jesus' central prohecy cited above, smacks of intellectual dishonesty at best.

Answer 10

Err...you are forgetting ones like this:

Isaiah 19:18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.

That never happened and the language is dead so it can't. The thing with prophecy is that it is only really impressive if it is clear and you always get it right. There are lots like that one that it just gets wrong.

"When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know."
-- Mark Twain

Answer 11

I do believe in prophecy and recommend Jack Van Impy or Hal Lindsey report here on the Internet .