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heres a question for yall: if the bible is so flawed, why is it so widely used by nonchristian historians, and why have so many of the prophesies it contains come true/ continue to come true? |
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and by "guest" i meant falcon.
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Also, with the crusades, in the bible, God has had many important religious figures kill pagan men, enslave the children, and rape the women. How is this different from the crusades? In essense, its not. Also, for these prophesies, name RECENT (within lets say 10-50 years) that are prophesized in the bible. Enlighten me. Historians use them simply because they must use every single piece of evidence they can to reconstruct our and the worlds history. When historians unearth, lets say, a mesopotamian tablet of a story, it doesn't matter whether or not they think its a fiction or non fiction, they must use it to the best of their abilities to help reconstruct the way things were. |
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Like ultimategamer said, it's a relic that has survived for wuite a long time, and is widely available to all.
Unfortunately, it contradicts itself, so I"ve read. But I haven't come across any of this stuff. Most of the contradiction that I've come across comes in the form of the followers who misquote. :P
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12-14-2003, 11:39 PM | #205 |
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"Prophecy" is generally a bunch of crap. All a prophecy is, is ia general statement about something that could happen any time in the future.
Probably the best example of this is the writing of Nostradamus (it was Nostradamus right? I'm bad with names... ). He wrote a lot of "prophecies" by making general statements about conflict and such, so then in hindsight we can go "OMG NOSTRADAMUS SO PREDICTED THAT WHEN HE SAID ____ ". The best example of this would be the WTC attack in 2k1. Nostradamus had some writing about 2 towers burning, or something along those lines (sorry I'm too lazy to go find the actual passage) and after the incident people realized how similar that passage was to the incident. But prophecies never give a time frame, or really any specifics for that matter either. So, IMO, they're complete bull. Anyone can write prophecy if they want to. All you have to do is make some general statement about any sort of possible occurence and make it sound good, and you have yourself a prophecy.
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12-14-2003, 11:41 PM | #206 |
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It was Nostradamus. You didn't by chance see the History channel's show today on him? They talked about that, and Hister. Not hitler, but Hister. That's supposedly the name used to mean Hitler that Nostradamus used.
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this is for kineom and everyone else who wonders:
http://www.webster.sk.ca/greenwich/bible-a.htm here is a rather interesting site that contains a LOT of biblical contradictions. Granted, a few on such a work would be understandable, but this pretty much shows more contradictions than you can shake a stick at. |
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Hah, I just saw that History Channel special.
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There's probably a logical explanation, but I'll just choose to say 'ew' and leave it at that. |
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12-15-2003, 01:47 PM | #210 | |
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to all who dont go to church, the old testament is a group of stories...much like fables, they are not meant to be taken literally, but to teach a lesson...many of the things may have taken place in some form , but not in the extent the bible makes it to be
ie Noahs arc there was a massive flood, and noah did gather two of the animals...well the ones he could find nearby, and the flood didnt cover the whole earth, just his region...it happened but not always ot the extent the bible says
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WOW 14 pages thats a record for this section of the forums
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