(November 10, 2013 at 3:35 am)Esquilax Wrote:(November 10, 2013 at 3:06 am)snowtracks Wrote: here's one -
from: bibleresearch.org
The Temple destruction prophecy
"not one stone here will be left on another" - it's all about the gold
Could you get a more self fulfilling prophecy? A building from a time of uniformly shitty construction standards will fall? And ooh, no time limit on that either, how convenient.
See, that's the prophecy game; make vague, general statements without instantiating a specific time, and then eventually, something happens in some place at some time that can be spun into a confirmation of that prophecy.
But when the bible actually does give a serious time limit, or details? It doesn't work out so- ahem- miraculously: what do you say about Tyre, Snowy? Prophesied to fall by the hand of a specific foe, and yet it still stands today, and was only ever invaded by someone completely different. A failed prophecy at every conceivable level, and so it's swept under the rug, or spun in the other direction.
And so goes the apologetic game...
the temple hasn't been located, so evidently it was destroyed.
Atheist Credo: An universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.