Comment Re:This is not a bad idea (Score 1) 848
Would you be so kind as to provide examples of non-trivial predictions made by the Bible proven to have been made prior to the event itself, the event itself proven to have been accurately recorded, and the people ivolved proven to have no prior knowledge of the prophecy beforehand to influence their actions?
The real reason you think people dismiss these prophecies on 'faith' is that, since the emergence of the Bible, there have been zero verifyable prophets. In fact, since we began taking the reocrding of history seriously, there have been zero proven prophets.
Does this not strike you as strange, considering all of the history that has occured between now and then that if God were so concerned with the world and the decline of his following that he might want to do something about it? You think he just sits there and fumes over the non-believers even though he has the power to convert them with ease?
It seems sort of cruel of God, that he offers eternal damnation as your fate if you don't subscribe to specific beliefs, but offers no real proof of his existence to people. This is akin to me pointing a gun to your head and asking you if you believe I own a working magic wand. If you don't, I'll kill you, and when you ask why you should believe me, I will give you a note from the last guy I pointed the gun at who claims full faith in my wand as proof.
There are so many problems with this situation. First I have a gun to your head so anything you say is going to be influenced by it. Second, I offer you no reason to believe me other than the gun to your head and the word of someone else who had a gun to their head. Third, you've never seen a magic wand in your lifetime nor provable existence of one, yet I'm asking you to believe in mine, and your life is forfeit if you don't. You see the problem?
The real reason you think people dismiss these prophecies on 'faith' is that, since the emergence of the Bible, there have been zero verifyable prophets. In fact, since we began taking the reocrding of history seriously, there have been zero proven prophets.
Does this not strike you as strange, considering all of the history that has occured between now and then that if God were so concerned with the world and the decline of his following that he might want to do something about it? You think he just sits there and fumes over the non-believers even though he has the power to convert them with ease?
It seems sort of cruel of God, that he offers eternal damnation as your fate if you don't subscribe to specific beliefs, but offers no real proof of his existence to people. This is akin to me pointing a gun to your head and asking you if you believe I own a working magic wand. If you don't, I'll kill you, and when you ask why you should believe me, I will give you a note from the last guy I pointed the gun at who claims full faith in my wand as proof.
There are so many problems with this situation. First I have a gun to your head so anything you say is going to be influenced by it. Second, I offer you no reason to believe me other than the gun to your head and the word of someone else who had a gun to their head. Third, you've never seen a magic wand in your lifetime nor provable existence of one, yet I'm asking you to believe in mine, and your life is forfeit if you don't. You see the problem?
