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A friend said peace in the middle east is soon and god will return?

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A friend said peace in the middle east is soon and god will return?
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A friend said peace in the middle east is soon and god will return?
July 19, 2014 at 12:46 pm
OK so im pretty new here so i apologize if maybe im posting this in the section, but can someone debunk this? my friend said that after the war going on between Israel and gaza that the bible says god will make his miraculous return, but i have to ask you atheist, how do you debunk something that the bible said in prophecy? im an atheist myself, so can you please shed some light on this topic?
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RE: A friend said peace in the middle east is soon and god will return?
July 19, 2014 at 12:50 pm
Well people have been making these sort of predictions for hundreds of years and nothing has come of them. I doubt your friend has any specific insight. If the bible is really making prophesies, why isn't it specific? Why does God leave anything open to interpretation? If an all powerful being really could predict the future he would be clear about it, instead the bible and book of revelations is vague, interpretable and mostly mumbled confusion.

The real way to debunk it though is to say that predicting the future is impossible and there is no good reason to believe in god, making his 'return' rather irrelevant.
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RE: A friend said peace in the middle east is soon and god will return?
July 19, 2014 at 12:52 pm
First, it's all bullshit.

Second, these end times idiots always seem to forget the temple has yet to be rebuilt. This fact alone puts a damper on their parade. Sounds like another case of a believer not understanding what's written in their special book.
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RE: A friend said peace in the middle east is soon and god will return?
July 19, 2014 at 12:52 pm
I don't bother putting myself out to debunk anything.
It's not immoral to eat meat, abort a fetus or love someone of the same sex...I think that about covers it
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RE: A friend said peace in the middle east is soon and god will return?
July 19, 2014 at 12:56 pm
Hi Master, welcome to AF.
Actually, Israel has 2 wars to go:
Ezekiel 38 and Armageddon.
Then real peace comes.
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RE: A friend said peace in the middle east is soon and god will return?
July 19, 2014 at 1:09 pm
A war is going to end! (Gasps!) Impossible! Next thing you know, people will be predicting that it's going to rain in the not too distant future!
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RE: A friend said peace in the middle east is soon and god will return?
July 19, 2014 at 1:10 pm
The world really did end around 1912 or so.

Everything since is an illusion from Satan.

Kinda redundant to be predicting the world to end again.


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RE: A friend said peace in the middle east is soon and god will return?
July 19, 2014 at 1:18 pm
(July 19, 2014 at 12:46 pm)masterx1234 Wrote: OK so im pretty new here so i apologize if maybe im posting this in the section, but can someone debunk this? my friend said that after the war going on between Israel and gaza that the bible says god will make his miraculous return, but i have to ask you atheist, how do you debunk something that the bible said in prophecy? im an atheist myself, so can you please shed some light on this topic?

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RE: A friend said peace in the middle east is soon and god will return?
July 19, 2014 at 1:21 pm
Tell your asshole friend that his fucking god wasn't here the first time.

Idiots.
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RE: A friend said peace in the middle east is soon and god will return?
July 19, 2014 at 2:08 pm
What we need is a leader to emerge and solve all these problems. Maybe Obama? Him and Putin are doing so well.

Or perhaps Ronald Reagan. Didn't his name add up to 666? Ooooh, scary.
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