Atheists, explain away these SPECIFIC prophecies from the Bible. Can you?

Here, I will help you:

2.) Wickedness will be rampant as it was in the days of Noah (Matthew 24:37-38)
3.) Homosexuality will be rampant (Luke 17:28-29)
4.) Adultery, material greed, and the killing of innocent life will be commonplace (Revelation 17-18)
6.) Many false religious leaders and false prophets will have arisen (24:23-25)
7.) Earthquakes, disease, and famine would be widespread (Luke 21:11)
8.) There will be many wars and rumors of war (Mark 13:7)

All of the above could be predicted for any year from the beginning of civilization. Thus no great prediction there, anyone could guess it.

1.) It will be a time when knowledge and transportation has greatly increased (Daniel 12:4)
9.) There will be a Jewish holocaust (Ezekiel 37:1-14)
10.) Followed by Israel's return as a nation (Ezekiel 37:11-12)
11.) Israel's pure language, Hebrew, will return to the land (Zephaniah 3:9)

These I will read up the actual prediction because I have read others which are claimed to be about something, however when you read them they are nothing of the sort.
 
Any idiot that understands anything at all about the cyclical nature of history could have predicted every single one of these things.

It's anecdotal, at best. And that's extremely generous on my part.
 
1) In time societies and people grow and get more intelligent. Common sense shows that. People don't get dumber with age. They get smarter with age. Duh.
2) Common sense also shows there is and always will be evil in the world.
3) 5-10 percent of EVERY SPECIES including humans, has homosexuality tendencies. That's not rampant. When did you decide to be straight? When did you decide you wanted to get butterflies when you were around the opposite sex? Oh ya, You didn't choose. Golden RUle. Do unto to others as you would do unto you. That means don't tell others who they can love, since you don't want peopel to tell you who u can love.
4) Answer same as 2
5) True message of Gospel, is Jesus's teachings. Love, compassion, kindness, gratitude, selflness, etc. Common sense shows people pass on love and such all the time

Too lazy to do the rest of the answers
 
here's my prophecy:
science and medicine will grow
the rate of unemployment will grow
national debts will only increase

we all know this is true, does this make me a God?
 
1.) It will be a time when knowledge and transportation has greatly increased (Daniel 12:4)

Vague as heck, did he mean horse and buggy transportation. The King James translation is this "even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased"

Many shall run to and fro...so the prophets predicted NBA and European football?

2.) Wickedness will be rampant as it was in the days of Noah (Matthew 24:37-38)

Bad stuff happens, gee fancy that!

3.) Homosexuality will be rampant (Luke 17:28-29)

Homosexuality is always "rampant", it's just these days gays have to go to less effort to hide it!

4.) Adultery, material greed, and the killing of innocent life will be commonplace (Revelation 17-18)

Bad stuff happens, whoo!

5.) The Gospel will have been preached to all nations (Matthew 24:14)

Well this was the hope of Christianity, the raison de'tre for them going out and annoying everyone. Not so much a prophecy as a mission statement.

6.) Many false religious leaders and false prophets will have arisen (24:23-25)

Define "false".

7.) Earthquakes, disease, and famine would be widespread (Luke 21:11)

More bad stuff, hey look-bad stuff!

8.) There will be many wars and rumors of war (Mark 13:7)

Bad stuff a-rama.

9.) There will be a Jewish holocaust (Ezekiel 37:1-14)

Like the tribe whose entire recorded potted history was a litany of being picked on, picking on others and demented revenge fantasies and someone thought that it just...might...happen again?

10.) Followed by Israel's return as a nation (Ezekiel 37:11-12)

Again, more of a vauge hope and a mission statement.

11.) Israel's pure language, Hebrew, will return to the land (Zephaniah 3:9)

Hebrew isn't a "pure" language any more than church Latin is, besides wasn't Aramaic the language spoken by Israelites around the supposed time of Jesus, not Hebrew?
 
1- Any one who has lived 40-60 years would have observed that in their lifetime and assumed the future would have similar gains. Would have been impressive if it were more specific. If it described the internet that would have been cool.
2- Not "rampant."
3- Not "rampant".
4- Not "commonplace."
5- Wishful thinking.
6- Would have been a slight to other, opposing, preachers and religions at the time. These books weren't written in a vacuum.
7- Not "widespread."
8- Historical and observational experience. It would be more impressive, knowing the past, to have made a counter prediction that came true.
9- Retro definition: The term, used in modern times to describe an horrific event, was borrowed from the Bible. The Bible did not predict it---it was used to name it. Could have just as easily been dubbed "The Jewish Apocalypse."
10- Wishful thinking and nation/religion building. What do you think the Bible was for? It was meant to market and brand a product to a people. Wouldn't you give them what they wanted to hear? Just listen to all the preachers on TV every Sunday doing the same thing.
11- See #10. Would've been more impressive if it said: "A new nation, named America, will arise and it's language will be called 'English' with a little 'Spanish' thrown in."
 
Oh my god LOOOL!

Another brainwashed person. Sad, sad, sad.
 
1-8: You'd be hard pressed to name any time in the last 5,000 years when these "predicitions" were not true everywhere. Fail.

9. I don't know what you've been smoking, but that biblical passage doesn't say anything at all about a Jewish holocaust. Fail.

10. A reading of that passage says nothing about Hebrew, in the first place, and since even believers across the world don't all know Hebrew, and all pray in their own specific tongue...Fail.

Can't you try to come up with something a little more specific? Oh wait...I forgot, you're talking about a collection of sheepherder mythology from the Bronze Age. Nevermind.
 
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