(December 31, 2021 at 8:40 pm)Mercyvessel Wrote: Do not simply declare them such... instead, humbly "search the scriptures" - you will find in fact that prophecy continues to be fulfilled, discoveries corroborating truth continue to be made!
Prophecies from the Bible:
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 everlasting wasteland inhabited by dragons in which humans will never again dwell. None of this has happened.
Zechariah 10:11. The Nile is predicted to dry up. Did not happen.
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"
