The thing about biblical prophecies that stick out to me most is that people never use them to, you know, predict things?
You'd think the main draw of a prophecy would be that you'd know about things ahead of time and could plan your actions around what you now know to get the maximal advantage from the prediction, but that never happens. All we ever get are post hoc retrofittings of events that have already happened into this or that biblical prophecy; given the opportunity to put their money where their mouth is and behave as though any given prophecy is detailing future events, most theists simply won't, further than distant ramblings about stuff that won't ever affect their lives. It's... odd.
What's also interesting is the lack of accountability here: oh, we'll get claims of one prophecy or another yet to be fulfilled that will come true, but never in any falsifiable way. Never with a date attached, which you'd think would be the only useful thing about a prophecy. Isn't it curious how no theist will ever make a claim that could ever be proved wrong? I'd love it for someone to lay down a proper, iron clad date and stick to that, but we know what happens when theists do that: anyone remember Harold Camping?
Not to mention all the bible prophecies that objectively aren't true, like the one about Tyre falling and never coming back, since it's still around today. Now, you could go through the same contortions as other theists here, OP, and tell us that it isn't the same Tyre, it's a different Tyre for some reason, but that in itself is a problem: how far do you have to bend to preserve your beliefs before those beliefs just break? For some, it seems there's no end to that credulity.
As to your numbers thing... come on, man. You arbitrarily define the alphabet as corresponding to certain numbers based on very little, somehow come to the conclusion that the end of the alphabet must all be zeroes, and then- what a shock!- your random number game pulled from the ether comes up with a potentially significant number?
hock:
At best what you've got there is some interesting math homework.
You'd think the main draw of a prophecy would be that you'd know about things ahead of time and could plan your actions around what you now know to get the maximal advantage from the prediction, but that never happens. All we ever get are post hoc retrofittings of events that have already happened into this or that biblical prophecy; given the opportunity to put their money where their mouth is and behave as though any given prophecy is detailing future events, most theists simply won't, further than distant ramblings about stuff that won't ever affect their lives. It's... odd.
What's also interesting is the lack of accountability here: oh, we'll get claims of one prophecy or another yet to be fulfilled that will come true, but never in any falsifiable way. Never with a date attached, which you'd think would be the only useful thing about a prophecy. Isn't it curious how no theist will ever make a claim that could ever be proved wrong? I'd love it for someone to lay down a proper, iron clad date and stick to that, but we know what happens when theists do that: anyone remember Harold Camping?
Not to mention all the bible prophecies that objectively aren't true, like the one about Tyre falling and never coming back, since it's still around today. Now, you could go through the same contortions as other theists here, OP, and tell us that it isn't the same Tyre, it's a different Tyre for some reason, but that in itself is a problem: how far do you have to bend to preserve your beliefs before those beliefs just break? For some, it seems there's no end to that credulity.
As to your numbers thing... come on, man. You arbitrarily define the alphabet as corresponding to certain numbers based on very little, somehow come to the conclusion that the end of the alphabet must all be zeroes, and then- what a shock!- your random number game pulled from the ether comes up with a potentially significant number?
hock:At best what you've got there is some interesting math homework.
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