Because only the bible has the power of prophecy fulfilled throughout
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So how is Jesus' generation living to see his return working out for you? We still on for that rather specific and important prophecy? Or do all the many, many, many failed prophecies (like the one Jesus, himself supposedly fulfilled in spite of meeting pretty much NONE of the requirements) all conveniently not count for reasons that you're not at liberty to explain?
Except that all the "prophecies" made in the early parts of the book all come true in the later parts of the book. If the bible were a novel, we'd call it "foreshadowing."
But you still have to explain the failure of the prophecy of Tyre. You can't claim divinity for a book which makes such an obvious mistake. Not to mention Jesus' many failed prophecies about his second coming and the end of the world happening within the lifetimes of the people he was speaking to.
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...and your 'God' - in the form of your J-boy - said in Mark 12:17 'Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's'.
Therefore the IRS would like a word with you concerning your rather sizeable chunk of the nearly $17 quadrillion owed in taxes by Christianity in the US since 1776: untold trillions .
Because only religions are allowed tax-exemption status. Such as Islam. And $cientology.
But you daren't learn. Because you can't handle the Truth! [/"A Few Good Men"]
Yet there are entire websites out there devoted to prophetic failures of the bible. Heck, there are even apologetic discussions out there devoted to propping them up.
Also what is with the rash of submissions lately that have trouble forming a coherent sentence?
@ Kanna
Jeremiah prophesied that the Babylonians would smash Judah, and they did. That wasn't hard to predict from just looking at the political situation at the time, but Jeremiah cast it as a prophecy, and lo, it was fulfilled. (Jeremiah 43:1013 was utterly wrong, but nobody pays attention to that.)
Similarly, several prophets predicted that the Jews would get their homeland back after being exiled by Babylon, and they did. Accompanying prophecies, in which all nations come to worship Yahweh, have not been fulfilled and are generally pushed off into the apocalyptic future.
Jesus is also said to fulfill many earlier Jewish prophecies, though that's largely because of creative reinterpretation of those prophecies by early Christians.
Joseph SMith asked God for help knowing which religion was the right one. God sent an angel who said, “They’s all fucked up” and led Smith to creating the Latter Day Saints, to get it correct.
So we don’t need non-Christain religions to make it look like a big mess….
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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