Christians, when you say "hundreds of biblical prophecies from the bible have...

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...been full filled"...? But you never really give any examples? I have heard that so many times and you just say it but don't talk about it. Perhaps you could explain to me these prophecies that have been fulfilled and provide a significant amount of evidence for your claim?
 
Considering that the story of Jesus was purpose-written to "fulfill" prophecies in order to cement the claims that he was the messiah...and other so-called "fulfilled prophecies" are so vague as to be interpreted in any number of ways...I'm utterly unimpressed when this argument is brought forward by believers.
 
None of the Revelation prophecies came true, Nero didn't return and the jews did not overthrow him. Jesus did not return in the life time of his audience. Jesus didn't usher in an age of peace and he wasn't named Emmanuel. Since most fundies claim the bible is infallible anyone of these failed prophecies blows them out of the water. It doesn't matter how many were fulfilled.
 
more current...

Israel is God's time piece... when did Israel become an independent nation? 1948... and they regained Jerusalem in 1967... the Bible says the generation (40-70 yrs) that sees these things come to pass shall NOT pass away before the end comes....
Zechariah 12
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto ALL the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for ALL people: ALL that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though ALL the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

Revelation 9
13And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
15And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
16And the number of the army of the horsemen were TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND THOUSAND: and I heard the number of them.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33108782/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

Revelation 16
12And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was DRIED UP, THAT THE KINGS OF THE EAST might be prepared.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/07/14/Euphrates-drought-worries-Iraq/UPI-35601247604542/

ONLY regarding Jesus:
a = OT (prophesy)
b = NT (fulfilled)

1. A descendant of Abraham
a. Genesis 22:18; b. Luke 3:34, Galatians 3:16
2. A descendant of Isaac
a. Genesis 21:12; b. Luke 3:34
3. A descendant of Judah
a. Genesis 49:10; b. Luke 3:33
4. A descendant of Jesse
a. Isaiah 11:1; b. Luke 3:32
5. A descendant of King David
a. Jeremiah 23:5; b. Luke 3:31
6. Born in Bethlehem
a. Micah 5:2; b. Luke 2:4-7
7. Presented with gifts by Magi from Persia
a. Psalm 72:10; b. Matthew 2:1,11
8. Called Immanuel ("God with us")
a. Isaiah 7:14; b. Matthew 1:23
9. His ministry was to begin in Galilee
a. Isaiah 9:1; b. Matthew 4:12-17
10. Enters Jerusalem on a donkey
a. Zechariah 9:9; b. Luke 19:35-37
11. Betrayed by a friend
a. Psalm 41:9; b. Matthew 26:49-50
12. Betrayed for 30 pieces of silver
a. Zechariah 11:12; b. Matthew 26:15
13. Coins Thrown on the Floor
a. Zechariah 11:13; b. Matthew 27:5
14. Christ's Followers Desert Him
a. Zechariah 13:7; b. Matthew 26:56
15. Christ Accused by False Witnesses
a. Psalm 35:11; b. Matthew 26:59
16. Christ Silent Before Accusers
a. Isaiah 53:7; b. Matthew 27:12
17. Christ Struck and Spat Upon
a. Micah 5:1; b. Matthew 27:30
18. Christ to be Scourged
a. Isaiah 50:61; b. John 19:1
19. Crucified (predicted before Crucifixion was invented by Romans!):
a. Psalm 22:16; b. Luke 23:33
20. Crucified with thieves
a. Isaiah 53:12; b. Matthew 27:38
21. Clothes were gambled for
a. Psalm 22:18; b. John 19:23-24
22. His bones would not be broken
a. Psalm 34:20; b. John 19:33
23. His side pierced
a. Zechariah 12:10; b. John 19:34
24. Christ to be Mocked
a. Psalm 22:7; b. Mattthew 27:39
25. Christ Thirsted and Given Vinegar
a. Psalm 69:21; b. John 19:28
26. Christ Prayed for Enemies
a. Isaiah 53:12; b. Luke 23:34
27. Buried in a rich man's tomb
a. Isaiah 53:9; b. Matthew 27:57-69
28. Resurrected from the dead
a. Psalm 16:10; b. Acts 2:31, Matthew 28:6
29. Ascended into Heaven
a. Psalm 68:18a; b. Acts 1:9
 
Ya really think I'm going to type the 300 prophecies predicting exactly what Christ was going to do and say. Tonight just for you. They are in the Bible and u can google them.
 
one of them includes Atheist in Yahoo answer, many will forsake the truth and follow deceiving spirits
 
The "biblical prophesies" are just vague references and can be linked to many events which have happened, much like Nostradamus' prophecies.
 
just for starters...

FULFILLED prophecy speaks VOLUMES!!!!!!!!

(1) Some time before 500 B.C. the prophet Daniel proclaimed that Israel's long-awaited Messiah would begin his public ministry 483 years after the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem (Daniel 9:25-26). He further predicted that the Messiah would be "cut off," killed, and that this event would take place prior to a second destruction of Jerusalem. Abundant documentation shows that these prophecies were perfectly fulfilled in the life (and crucifixion) of Jesus Christ. The decree regarding the restoration of Jerusalem was issued by Persia's King Artaxerxes to the Hebrew priest Ezra in 458 B.C., 483 years later the ministry of Jesus Christ began in Galilee. (Remember that due to calendar changes, the date for the start of Christ's ministry is set by most historians at about 26 A.D. Also note that from 1 B.C. to 1 A.D. is just one year.) Jesus' crucifixion occurred only a few years later, and about four decades later, in 70 A.D. came the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus.
(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 10 to the 5th power.)*

(2) In approximately 700 B.C. the prophet Micah named the tiny village of Bethlehem as the birthplace of Israel's Messiah (Micah 5:2). The fulfillment of this prophecy in the birth of Christ is one of the most widely known and widely celebrated facts in history.
(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 10 to the 5th power.)

(3) In the fifth century B.C. a prophet named Zechariah declared that the Messiah would be betrayed for the price of a slave—thirty pieces of silver, according to Jewish law-and also that this money would be used to buy a burial ground for Jerusalem's poor foreigners (Zechariah 11:12-13). Bible writers and secular historians both record thirty pieces of silver as the sum paid to Judas Iscariot for betraying Jesus, and they indicate that the money went to purchase a "potter's field," used—just as predicted—for the burial of poor aliens (Matthew 27:3-10).
(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 10 to the 11th power.)

(4) Some 400 years before crucifixion was invented, both Israel's King David and the prophet Zechariah described the Messiah's death in words that perfectly depict that mode of execution. Further, they said that the body would be pierced and that none of the bones would be broken, contrary to customary procedure in cases of crucifixion (Psalm 22 and 34:20; Zechariah 12:10). Again, historians and New Testament writers confirm the fulfillment: Jesus of Nazareth died on a Roman cross, and his extraordinarily quick death eliminated the need for the usual breaking of bones. A spear was thrust into his side to verify that he was, indeed, dead.
(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 10 to the 13th power.)

(5) The prophet Isaiah foretold that a conqueror named Cyrus would destroy seemingly impregnable Babylon and subdue Egypt along with most of the rest of the known world. This same man, said Isaiah, would decide to let the Jewish exiles in his territory go free without any payment of ransom (Isaiah 44:28; 45:1; and 45:13). Isaiah made this prophecy 150 years before Cyrus was born, 180 years before Cyrus performed any of these feats (and he did, eventually, perform them all), and 80 years before the Jews were taken into exile.
(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 10 the 15th power.)

(6) Mighty Babylon, 196 miles square, was enclosed not only by a moat, but also by a double wall 330 feet high, each part 90 feet thick. It was said by unanimous popular opinion to be indestructible, yet two Bible prophets declared its doom. These prophets further claimed that the ruins would be avoided by travelers, that the city would never again be inhabited, and that its stones would not even be moved for use as building material (Isaiah 13:17-22 and Jeremiah 51:26, 43). Their description is, in fact, the well-documented history of the famous citadel.
(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 10 to the 9th power.)

(7) The exact location and construction sequence of Jerusalem's nine suburbs was predicted by Jeremiah about 2600 years ago. He referred to the time of this building project as "the last days," that is, the time period of Israel's second rebirth as a nation in the land of Palestine (Jeremiah 31:38-40). This rebirth became history in 1948, and the construction of the nine suburbs has gone forward precisely in the locations and in the sequence predicted.
(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 10 to the 18th power.)

(8) The prophet Moses foretold (with some additions by Jeremiah and Jesus) that the ancient Jewish nation would be conquered twice and that the people would be carried off as slaves each time, first by the Babylonians (for a period of 70 years), and then by a fourth world kingdom (which we know as Rome). The second conqueror, Moses said, would take the Jews captive to Egypt in ships, selling them or giving them away as slaves
 
you nevered researched history thats why you dont see them fullfiled.
jesus did exist.
and by papers found from barrial they were found to be written at the time jesus walked the planet.
 
1. Israel and Assyria on the World Stage

God’s prophet Isaiah, who began to prophesy about 778*B.C.E., foretold: “With the feet the eminent crowns of the drunkards of Ephraim [Israel] will be trampled down. And the fading flower of its decoration of beauty that is upon the head of the fertile valley must become like the early fig before summer, that, when the seer sees it, while it is yet in his palm, he swallows it down.” (Isaiah 28:3,*4) As thus predicted, by the mid-eighth century*B.C.E., Israel’s capital, Samaria, had become like a ripe fig ready to be plucked and swallowed by the military forces of Assyria. That is just what happened when Samaria was conquered by the Assyrians in 740*B.C.E.—2*Kings 17:6, 13,*18.

In time it was Assyria’s turn to march into history. Its capital was Nineveh, so infamous for cruel treatment of captives that it was called “the city of bloodshed.” (Nahum 3:1) Jehovah God himself had decreed Nineveh’s ruin. For instance, through the prophet Nahum, God said: “Look! I am against you .*.*. I will make you despicable; and I will set you as a spectacle. And it must occur that everyone seeing you will flee away from you and will certainly say, ‘Nineveh has been despoiled!’” (Nahum 3:5-7) Zephaniah also foretold the destruction of Assyria and the desolating of Nineveh. (Zephaniah 2:13-15) These prophecies were fulfilled in 632*B.C.E. when, surprisingly, the combined forces of Babylonian king Nabopolassar and Cyaxares the Mede plundered and razed Nineveh—so thoroughly that even the location of the city became unknown for over 2,000 years. The Babylonian Empire was next on the world stage.

2. Babylon’s Ruin Predicted

The Bible predicted that the Babylonian Empire would be overthrown and foretold how its capital city, Babylon, would fall. Almost two centuries in advance, the prophet Isaiah warned that the Euphrates River would be dried up. It flowed through Babylon, and gates along the river were a vital part of the city’s defenses. The prophecy named Cyrus as the conqueror and noted that Babylon’s “two-leaved doors” would not be shut to the invaders. (Isaiah 44:27–45:7) Accordingly, God saw to it that Babylon’s two-leaved doors along the Euphrates were left open during a festival on the night that the forces of Cyrus the Great made their assault. Without difficulty, therefore, they entered the city by way of the riverbed and captured Babylon.

The historian Herodotus wrote: “Cyrus .*.*. stationed part of his force at the point where the Euphrates flows into [Babylon] and another contingent at the opposite end where it flows out, with orders to both to force an entrance along the river-bed as soon as they saw that the water was shallow enough. .*.*. By means of a cutting he diverted the river into the lake (which was then a marsh) and in this way so greatly reduced the depth of water in the actual bed of the river that it became fordable, and the Persian army, which had been left at Babylon for the purpose, entered the river, now only deep enough to reach about the middle of a man’s thigh, and, making their way along it, got into the town. .*.*. There was a festival going on, and even while the city was falling they continued to dance and enjoy themselves, until hard facts brought them to their senses.”—Herodotus—The Histories, translated by Aubrey de Selincourt.

On that very night, God’s prophet Daniel warned Babylon’s ruler of impending disaster. (Daniel, chapter 5) An inferior Babylon did exist for some centuries thereafter. From there, for instance, the apostle Peter wrote his first inspired letter in the first century*C.E. (1*Peter 5:13) But Isaiah’s prophecy had stated: “Babylon .*.*. must become as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. She will never be inhabited.” God had also said: “I will cut off from Babylon name and remnant and progeny and posterity.” (Isaiah 13:19-22; 14:22) As predicted, Babylon eventually became a heap of ruins. Any possible restoration of that ancient city might lure tourists but would still leave it bereft of its “progeny and posterity.”

Daniel—Jehovah’s prophet present in Babylon when it fell—had a vision involving the conquering Medes and Persians. He beheld a two-horned ram and a male goat that had a great horn between its eyes. The goat assaulted the ram and struck it down, breaking its two horns. Then the goat’s great horn was broken, and four horns came up in its place. (Daniel 8:1-8) As the Bible*predicted and history has confirmed, the two-horned ram stood for Medo-Persia. The male goat represented Greece. And what of its “great horn”? This proved to be Alexander the Great. When that figurative great horn was broken, four symbolic horns (or, kingdoms) replaced it. True to the prophecy, after Alexander died, four of his generals established themselves in power—Ptolemy Lagus in Egypt and Palestine; Seleucus Nicator in Mesopotamia and Syria; Cassander in Macedonia and Greece; and Lysimachus in Thrace and Asia Minor.—Da
 
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