(January 12, 2019 at 7:53 am)CDF47 Wrote: In the beginning, Yahweh created the heavens and the earth. From there a creation account is given which I believe in OEC day-age interpretation.
Not really an account though is it.
It just says god did some stuff but does not say how or why just that he did some unlikely things.
Oh and who was writing this shit down?
It doesn't give any provenance to the writing or how they knew the stuff it just goes straight into it and all of it contradicts what is actually known about how the universe operates. So forgive me if I find it silly.
(January 12, 2019 at 7:53 am)CDF47 Wrote: Also, the prophecies in the Bible came true. Look at the Book of Daniel for instance with all the prophecy that came true.
Except they didn't. The argument is that the prophesies that "came true" were written after the events and all the ones that were supposed to happen later, didn't.
People like to change history to validate now. Look at Trump and the wall for someone trying to change the past to match the present.
https://infidels.org/library/modern/chri...aniel.html
Quote:Whenever critical scholars point out that Daniel's purported predictions were written after the fact, Christian believers routinely retort that they are merely showing a philosophical prejudice against the possibility of supernatural prophecy. Actually, it is not a question of philosophical presuppositions, but a question of hard evidence and inference to the best explanation. Daniel's "predictions" of events up to the desecration of the Temple in 167 BC and the beginning of the Maccabean revolt substantially came true--yet its predictions of a new invasion of Egypt by Antiochus and the Resurrection of the Dead soon thereafter totally failed. The author correctly "predicted" the rise of Alexander the Great, and the history of the Seleucid and Ptolemaic kings, but he fared far worse in his predictions that God would supernaturally slay Antiochus Epiphanes, raise the dead, and inaugurate the messianic age in 163 BC. The most likely explanation of this strange pattern is that these prophecies were first composed just before the time they started to fail by an author who had no genuine talent for predicting the future.
To cite a parallel example, the Book of Mormon prophets, who purportedly flourished between 600 BC and 400 AD, supposedly gave explicit predictions about Jesus Christ's career in first-century Palestine (Helaman 14 et passim), Christopher Columbus' discovery of America (1 Nephi 13:10-12), the Revolutionary War (1 Nephi 13:15-19), and Joseph Smith's prophetic career in nineteenth-century America (2 Nephi 3). However, the book is totally silent about events after 1830, the year the book was first printed. The most likely explanation is that the book was Smith's own composition, and a heavy burden of proof lies on Mormon apologists to prove otherwise. And the exact same reasoning applies to the prophecies of Daniel.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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