Where_r_my_Keys
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The answer to your question is, Prophecy.
How did David know about crucifixion? About piercing of hands and feet? An act that wouldn't exist for a thousand years? That Israel would be born in a day? That all nations would come against Israel? The countries that would invade Israel? That Christians would be beheaded?
1/4 of the Bible is prophesy. Accurate prophesy.
The Bible is the most accurate source of antiquity ever written. Those who make that claim use the Bible as the starting point to uncover our ancient past. IT HAS NEVER , REPEAT, NEVER BEEN FOUND INACCURATE. To the contrary, it is spot on. Archeologists depend on it.
Did you know that King David, a key player in the Bible, could have been described as a figment of Bible believers imagination? There was no evidence that He ever existed. Atheists had a field day with that one. Until they unearthed an ancient tablet describing a King's battle against the House of David.
Whether you believe in the word of God or the diggers, the Bible is sound.
This is even better:
A very simple flaw in the prophecy-fulfillment argument is that foreseeing the future doesn't necessarily prove divine guidance. Psychics have existed in every generation, and some of them have demonstrated amazing abilities to predict future events. Their "powers," although mystifying to those who witness them, are not usually considered divine in origin. If, then, Old Testament prophets did on occasions foresee the future (a questionable premise at best), perhaps they were merely the Nostradamus of their day. Why would it necessarily follow that they were divinely inspired? Even the Bible recognizes the possibility that uninspired prophets can sometimes accurately predict the future:
Usually, Bible "prophecies" turn out to be prophecies only because imaginative Bible writers arbitrarily declared them to be prophecies. The same can be said of their alleged fulfillments: the fulfillments are fulfillments only because obviously biased New Testament writers arbitrarily declared them to be fulfillments.
It must involve... specific details--not vague generalities or remote possibilities
And I'm sorrry, but to say one day that he people who live in what is now called Russia are going to start the big war is not that much of a prophecy. Everyone probably knew one day those barbarians were going to be trouble. BFD.
I have also heard from theists that the Beast is going to come from Europe & America. Which is it? I've also heard them claim the middle east is where all the trouble starts, then Europe, then Russia. I guess if you make enough prophecies some of them are going to come true.
LOL!
So prophecy is fiction too and this universe is the only universe and anyone who says otherwise is a lunatic?
Poor Neil deGrasse Tyson, whose 'prophecies' suggest otherwise, and himself an atheist.
Yes. If men made up the Jewish, Christian & Muslim faiths then it is very possible they made up these prophecies too.
These prophecies don't prove your god just like other religions prophecies don't prove their gods are real either.
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Really, the more I look into prophecies the more I am sure no they do not prove anything. They are just another way the churches con you into believing the unbelievable. Congrats on being gullible. Ignorance is bliss.
The prophecies only point to the means for the human mind to perceive future events. That proves that future events are predictable, which proves that within nature exist laws which provide for such. And since within our observable universe, there is no means to make such predictions (beyond actuarial science, which works upon the law of large numbers) that the species is somehow connected to other dimensions, which provides for the possibility that where such 'other dimensions' exist and, where humanity can tap into such, that there exists the further possibility that life beyond our own understanding exists and, it follows that such life would be characteristically common to God.
That such does not prove "God" to you is irrelevant, as you have clearly closed off you mind to the possibility that there exist life, beyond your means to comprehend.
The coolest part of this, is that as science advances, the existence of God becomes more certain.