The Old Testament has numerous failures of prophecies. Here are just a few:
• Isaiah 17:1. Damascus is predicted to cease to be a city. In fact, Damascus is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities.
• Jeremiah 49:33 predicts that Hazor will become an ever lasting wasteland in which humans will never again dwell.
The King James Bible says it will become inhabited by dragons. None of this has happened.
• Zechariah 10:11. The Nile is predicted to dry up. This has not yet happened.
• Ezekiel 29, 30. The land of Egypt will be laid waste by Nebuchadnezzar, all its people killed and rivers dried up. It will remain uninhabited for forty years. This did not happen.
• Isaiah 17:1. Damascus is predicted to cease to be a city. In fact, Damascus is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities.
• Jeremiah 49:33 predicts that Hazor will become an ever lasting wasteland in which humans will never again dwell.
The King James Bible says it will become inhabited by dragons. None of this has happened.
• Zechariah 10:11. The Nile is predicted to dry up. This has not yet happened.
• Ezekiel 29, 30. The land of Egypt will be laid waste by Nebuchadnezzar, all its people killed and rivers dried up. It will remain uninhabited for forty years. This did not happen.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
