(March 31, 2017 at 7:03 am)AtlasS33 Wrote:(March 29, 2017 at 12:50 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Not too impressive of a fulfilled prophecy.
Everyone knew about the passages in the Bible, 1000's of people post WWII were actively working toward an Israeli state, there was zero god needed in the process.
Just more proof of the ultra-low bar Christians use for evidence for their beliefs have to clear.
Who needs Jews after a thousand years ?
I never give the bible any literal accuracy; knowing that I believe it was forged. So the whole prophecy is only translated to "Israel will be revived again".
So let's count the odds:
1-Muslim dominated region
2-Arab generated region
3-Secular world
Israel is an oasis in the center of desert badlands, universities and a nuclear program, next to the same people that made places like "Syria" active bloodbaths like Syria.
The odds are just too "woof" for a prophecy a thousand years old. Variables change.
All religions are inventions of humans stemming from mundane competition. Some of the competition is from being sold the the delusion at birth, some of it is outright fraud, but they are still all made up.
The early Hebrews were a splinter sect of Canaanite polytheism. Buddhism is a splinter sect of Hinduism. Funny how the religions of Abraham all started out in the same close proximity. Mesopotamia, Europe and northern Africa were not impossible to travel and mix, even back then. Just like early Buddhism was overlapping in close proximity and even in India's history being close to Asia.
