Over 300 Fulfilled Prophecies!

Today, John Bevere tells us about how it is impossible for anyone but Jesus to have fulfilled over 300 biblical prophecies.

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[Slumvsky]

I got a prophecy too: "Ye apologists shall have no new topics!" Oh, it already got over 300 confirmations...

[Zift_Ylrhavic_Resfear]

A few weaknesses of prophecies :

1. Can be written after the fact
2. Can be deliberately fulfilled, turning them into instructions
3. Can be so vague as to be fulfilled by many diffferent things
4. Can predict things that happen often or that are more likely to happen the more time passes.

[ARCtheCartoonMaster]

Can we all just agree that _The Simpsons_ "predictions" are more prophetic than anything in the Bible?

[grukk]

I find the bible 100% reliable. It's just the right thickness to keep my table from wobbling

[archapmangcmg]

I got an ad for saving Rhinos.

Thought you'd get a kick out of that.

[Gremriel]

Why does that guy sound like he's about to break out in tears

[kenchristiansen]

Every "prophecy" is open to interpretation. So the "prophecy" means whatever you want it to mean

[pauligrossinoz]

*Totally nailed it!* 👍👍👍👍👍

The road to atheism is paved with Bibles that have actually been _read._

[sbunny]

For me, a huge step towards nonbelief was when I sat down to actually read the prophecies that Jesus supposedly fulfilled. Even as a Christian, I was shocked at how insubstantial the so-called "prophecies" were. I couldn't find a single one of them that matched up in any meaningful way.

I'm reminded of a movie involving a court case with over a thousand videotapes, with a written synopsis attached. The prosecution thought they had an overwhelming case: over a thousand videotapes! The synopsis was very compelling. It seemed like a slam dunk. But the synopsis didn't match what was actually on the tapes and several months went by before anyone bothered to check. One day, the prosecutor comes to the defense lawyer and offers a generous plea bargain. The defense lawyer says, "You finally watched the tapes, didn't you."

That's how it goes with Christianity. You listen to the sermons, you sing the songs, you ride the wave of emotions. Then one day you have a crisis of faith because you actually read the bible and discovered for yourself just what a pile of garbage it really is. Show me a former Christian who recently became an atheist and I'll say to them, "You finally read the book, didn't you."

[oscargordon]

Years ago before I had ever heard of the term "mythicist" I believed, like many atheists, that the virgin birth, walking on water, faith healing, and dying and then coming back to life, were all nonsense, but at least the Gospel stories were based on some mundane street preacher named Yeshua “He saves” that gained a minor following that slowly grew after his death. But then a Christian sent me this long diatribe about how everything in the Gospels was “foretold” in the OT. Then it dawned on me “wait a minute, why did an actual Jesus have to exist at all?” If the events of Jesus’ life as described in the the Gospels are nothing more than tales of events “prophesied” in the OT, there was no reason they had to be based on a real person. You just had to have a bunch of people sitting around telling stories of a “Messiah” fulfilling these “prophecies”, no actual person required.

[SadisticSenpai]

Gasp! Big number!

Seriously tho, I remember trying to quell my doubts when I was 11 by citing the claim about 40 authors over however many years writing the Bible and there's not one single error in the entire book. Even in my 11 year old mind, I didn't bring up the prophecies (which I never found all that compelling to begin with). I do remember feeling chills, a sense of existential dread, and anxiety sweats as I tried to fight back my doubts about the Bible's veracity. My 11 year old mind interpreted the feeling as the Holy Spirit warning me away from doubts. Looking back, I can see that it was a minor anxiety attack as I considered rejecting the religion that literally everyone I knew believed in (I grew up very sheltered and didn't meet any one that wasn't even my parents version of Christianity as far as I knew anyway until later that same year after we moved).

[kimberlykenyon]

I bet at one time a preacher bemoaned people sleeping more than being in the scripture

[Phreemunny]

It never ceases to amaze me that anyone who has actually read the Bible finds any of these “prophesies” impressive.

[rhokitten]

I wonder how this guy would react if we made a book with Harry Potter fanfiction. Some of the chapters/books would be from people who only read the book, some would be from people who only watched the movies, and some would be from people who never saw the original source in any form just read other fanfiction stories. Then it was all compiled and edited by a group of people who also know nothing about the original source but are trying to piece it together based on all the clips that they are provided. I think it would be about as consistent as the Bible.

[blarglemantheskeptic]

_"... perfectly harmonised..."_ ?? *They couldn't even get the FIRST PAGE harmonised!* 🤦‍♂️

Genesis 1 and 2 cannot agree on whether it was *Adam or the animals that were made first.* There was even an attempt to fix this issue by changing the translation to include the word "had" with reference to the creation of the land animals, but the rest of the context means that it didn't help.

[StewPedassle]

If your friend is having adventures with a donkey and she did not name them “Donkey Hotey, ” then that’s a massively missed opportunity.

[stevenleonard]

When I was a kid the issue was comic books. Funny how the more things change, the more they stay the same

[andystokes]

My favourite prophecy is when Jesus told his disciples after he died he would return within their lifetime. How did that one pan out?

[grapeshot]

Yeah and remember how Jeebus said many of the disciples wouldn't taste death until he returned. But every last one of the disciples is now dead and he's at least 1, 950 years late. But of course people can't get the hint they've been stood up, he ain't coming.

[thejudgmentalcat]

I'd love to hear about those "weird" donkey adventures. And no, my mind didn't go into the gutter. She sounds interesting.