The problem with "prophets" is the same problem that the christian religion has with the "christ" and "genesis" - when the stories were made up by their human authors they did two things
1 - They failed to fill in their fantasies with material to fill in the background of the characters in their fairy tales - so for instance - we have no birth date for the christ - since he was NOT TRULY born - and they never designated one. WE all know that December 25th is simply the conversion of the Saturnalia celebration of the Romans - to a christian purpose - and that the early christians did not celebrate Xmas.
2 - Because the characters were used by more than one writer - they made many varied and conflicting claims that contradict each other - making it obvious that these are "fictions" - because no single person could fulfill or be all the things claimed
Example - ALMIGHTY and ALL KNOWING cannot both be true. IF a god is all knowing - THE ONLY thing that can happen is what the god knows - there is only ONE possible result in every decision - and no one - including the god - can do something otherwise (NO one had the ability to do something that the god does not already know - even the god)
So - FREE WILL does not exist - even if YOU claim that the god knows what YOU will choose - you really are not "FREE" to change your mind and choose something that the god does not know.
Once you realize that most of the OT has turned out to be MYTH and LEGEND (No Exodus - no Adam and EVE - no Great Flood - no Tower of Babel - and genesis is nonsense) - the idea that you must make sense out of the prophets is a joke -
1 - They failed to fill in their fantasies with material to fill in the background of the characters in their fairy tales - so for instance - we have no birth date for the christ - since he was NOT TRULY born - and they never designated one. WE all know that December 25th is simply the conversion of the Saturnalia celebration of the Romans - to a christian purpose - and that the early christians did not celebrate Xmas.
2 - Because the characters were used by more than one writer - they made many varied and conflicting claims that contradict each other - making it obvious that these are "fictions" - because no single person could fulfill or be all the things claimed
Example - ALMIGHTY and ALL KNOWING cannot both be true. IF a god is all knowing - THE ONLY thing that can happen is what the god knows - there is only ONE possible result in every decision - and no one - including the god - can do something otherwise (NO one had the ability to do something that the god does not already know - even the god)
So - FREE WILL does not exist - even if YOU claim that the god knows what YOU will choose - you really are not "FREE" to change your mind and choose something that the god does not know.
Once you realize that most of the OT has turned out to be MYTH and LEGEND (No Exodus - no Adam and EVE - no Great Flood - no Tower of Babel - and genesis is nonsense) - the idea that you must make sense out of the prophets is a joke -
