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specifically the historical ones about Nineveh, Israel, Bablyon, etc. that this site mentions: http://www.100prophecies.org/page10.htm
this site also has some and is a rebuttal of talkorigins.com article on how Biblical prophecy can easily be explained away: http://creationwiki.org/Prophecies_prove_the_accuracy_of_the_Bible
Aside from trying to explain the objections people have to Christianity, Christians say that the Bible predicts future events with a 100% success rate (historical, messianic, end times) so it must be of divine origin. Since the Bible has so many of statements/predictions that people claim to be prophetic it would seem that if someone wanted to disprove the Bible they would have to, one by one, disprove the prophecies.
It seems that any moral or historical problem people have with the Bible could simply be "explained away" with "there are things we will not understand until we get to heaven" as long as the prophecies can't be disproven. The logic of this is "the prophecies prove the divinity of the Bible, so there must be a good answer to the other difficulties that we just don't know yet or won't know until we get to heaven."
I have been looking for articles that have done just that but I have not been able to find very many at all. Does anyone know of anywhere (or a combination of places) that has done this? For some of these historical prophecies it seems like some of them are fairly descriptive (or ones about the fall of cities ex: if the prophets said "Nineveh will fall" and it happens within a few decades of each of their lifetimes it seems like a coincidence of multiple different people would be highly improbable).
For instance Daniel is very detailed. One would have to prove that the detailed prophecies (or other prophecies that would be highly improbable to be correct due to coincidence) were authored after the event they predicted and/or that the political conditions of the time made it extremely apparent that it would happen in a manner they predicted.
So, does anyone know of anyone who has done a detailed rebuttal of each alleged Biblical prophecy? If so, where could I find this? What are your thoughts on prophecy?
Thanks.
this site also has some and is a rebuttal of talkorigins.com article on how Biblical prophecy can easily be explained away: http://creationwiki.org/Prophecies_prove_the_accuracy_of_the_Bible
Aside from trying to explain the objections people have to Christianity, Christians say that the Bible predicts future events with a 100% success rate (historical, messianic, end times) so it must be of divine origin. Since the Bible has so many of statements/predictions that people claim to be prophetic it would seem that if someone wanted to disprove the Bible they would have to, one by one, disprove the prophecies.
It seems that any moral or historical problem people have with the Bible could simply be "explained away" with "there are things we will not understand until we get to heaven" as long as the prophecies can't be disproven. The logic of this is "the prophecies prove the divinity of the Bible, so there must be a good answer to the other difficulties that we just don't know yet or won't know until we get to heaven."
I have been looking for articles that have done just that but I have not been able to find very many at all. Does anyone know of anywhere (or a combination of places) that has done this? For some of these historical prophecies it seems like some of them are fairly descriptive (or ones about the fall of cities ex: if the prophets said "Nineveh will fall" and it happens within a few decades of each of their lifetimes it seems like a coincidence of multiple different people would be highly improbable).
For instance Daniel is very detailed. One would have to prove that the detailed prophecies (or other prophecies that would be highly improbable to be correct due to coincidence) were authored after the event they predicted and/or that the political conditions of the time made it extremely apparent that it would happen in a manner they predicted.
So, does anyone know of anyone who has done a detailed rebuttal of each alleged Biblical prophecy? If so, where could I find this? What are your thoughts on prophecy?
Thanks.