Yes, I saw all of that and your un-named sources. I then went to other, official sources, who had no axes to grind. Personally, I get tired of those who feel their place in this world is to make someone else look bad. I am hoping one day the media will rise above being gossipy old hags.
Predict the future for me, because prophecy is how you know that the one who inspired the Bible can see the end from the beginning.
1/4 ain't much, especially when the life cycle of empires and centers of civilization in general has remained fundamentally the same throughout history and everyone knows it. It repeats and repeats, with slight differences, but with enough similarity that one can easily make it seem like prophecy. If you really understand that and accept it as true, it's not hard to predict how current civilizations and cultures will end up simply based what has already happened before. We are seeing the fall of Rome all over again except the names and faces and supporting roles are different. Civilization has a life cycle that has predictable algorithms. Thousands of years ago there were people who could design and build marvelous things. Those same people if they applied their intelligence accordingly, could also make predictions that would be right 1/4 of the time. It makes much more sense than the superstitious explanations some people have faith in.
It is if man can't even predict one page of prophesy. Who will win the Kentucky Derby less than a month from now? Keep in mind that the punishment for you being wrong is death.
No, no. You misunderstand. Right every single time or death. Every single time, not a quarter of the time. So many prophesies, that prophesy amounts to 1/4 of the pages in the book. That is 300 pages worth of successfully predicting the future.
Just a higher octave of the same fundamental thing in my opinion. I don't want to be eviscerated any more than I want to be evaporated.
Whatever. I definitely see some valuable wisdom wrapped up in the Bible but I have never seen anything that jaw-droppingly profound to me.
Do you have a hard time reading? 100% of the time, not 1/4 of the time. Let me repeat that. 100% of the time, not 1/4 of the time. 300 pages of being right 100% of the time. You have made prophesy contingent on civilizations. The Bible does not limit prophesy to civilization status. Cyclical has nothing to do with it. Isaiah described the torture and sacrifice of the Messiah. Not the fall of Rome.
You and I may be on similar pages, perhaps the same page. In the Bible, end times is not the annihilation of the planet or the end of civilization on earth. End times being predicted long before the birth of Christ. The Book of Revelation is not about a future time but about first century times. In the Bible, 'end times' signifies the end of an age or an era. Such times were mentioned in Genesis, Deuteronomy, Isaiah. It is the passage of one time into another. In the not to distant past one set of time was the one Before Christ, and the time after Christ (now known as Current Era and Before Current Era).
You can't prove that there ever was a messiah that was tortured it's just a story in a book. I never claimed that I can predict anything with certainty. I can't predict exactly how the civilization will fall they all fall differently. But they do all fall and with a similar pattern every time.
Will your jaw drop when we watch 2 dead men left in the street, come back to life while we watch it happen in real time? Will that get your attention? Just remember who told us that in advance when we sit in front of our TVs. It will open your eyes...
Let me know. I won't hold my breath.
In that case, tell us who the two men are that are killed and rise 3and 1/2 days later. How did they in the 1st century nearly destroy all life on the planet with their swords? When was the sun blocked out? When did the earthquake that levels the Mt. of Olives where Christ returns take place? When was the final battle in the Valley of Jezreel? Was there really that much blood? And since we know Jesus stays the next time He shows up, where is He? How was His millennial reign?
Bet you do. It's not everyday we watch people return from death...
Maybe they do, but that still has nothing to do with prophecy.
