Tyre /Tyrus just another coincidence or proof that there is a God?

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Ezekiel prophesied this around 600BC 

Ezekiel 26:7-12, "For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people. He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee. And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers. By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach. With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground. And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water."

Did this come to pass? History says yes! 

Tyrus was on the mainland of Lebanon when Nebuchadnezzar besieged it (586–573 BC) for thirteen years. Tyre stood firm, but it was probable that at this time the residents of the mainland city abandoned it for the safety of the island. Which was just off shore. In 332 B.C. Alexander the Great set out to conquer this strategic coastal base in the war between the Greeks and the Persians. Unable to storm the city, he blockaded Tyre for seven months. Again Tyre held on. But the conqueror used the debris of the abandoned mainland city to build a causeway and once within reach of the city walls, Alexander used his siege engines to batter and finally breach the fortifications. It is said that Alexander was so enraged at the Tyrians' defense and the loss of his men that he destroyed half the city. The town's 30,000 residents were massacred or sold into slavery. Notice the Alexander use the debris of the abandoned mainland city to build a causeway out to the island city. This causeway is still there and it now connects Tyre to the mainland to this day! Thus fulfilling Ezekiel’s  prophecy “and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water."

Again it takes more faith to believe that this is just a coincidence than to believe in God. I can’t be an atheist I don’t have that much faith!

nondescript · Accepted Answer

Actually not...

Ezekiel 29:17-20
...the Lord God came to me:“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labour hard against Tyre; every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare; yet neither he nor his army got anything from Tyre to pay for the labour that he had performed against it...” 

McDowell tried to twist history to show that Tyre has never been rebuilt. His argument is that the modern city of Tyre is not the old city of Tyre since the former was not on the exact location of the latter. Suffice to say that no one agrees with such a twisted method to fulfil prophecy. Furthermore the prophecy says that Tyre shall never be rebuilt after the destruction by Nebuchadnezzar-which never happened-since he never destroyed the city. Even after the destruction by Alexander the Great, the city was still rebuilt. In fact the city of Tyre was even referred to, by that name, in the New Testament (Mark 7:24, Acts 12:20). Tyre exists to this day and has a population of about 12,000.

Having failed in one prophecy did not make Ezekiel shy about making more:

Ezekiel 29:8-12
...thus says the Lord God..and the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste...no foot of man shall pass through it and no foot of beast shall past through it; it shall be uninhabited for forty years. And I will make the city of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries; and her cities shall be desolated forty years... I will scatter Egyptian among the nations, and disperse them through the countries. 

This passage must take the cake for the most prophecies proven wrong!

* Egypt has never been desolate and waste.
* Men and people have always walked through it.
* There has never been a single moment (let alone forty years) when Egypt was uninhabited.
* Egypt has never been a desolated countries surrounded by more desolated countries.
* Its cities has never been desolated for any period of time
* and finally there was no Egyptian diaspora[6]. 

Ezekiel tried his luck with another prophecy regarding Nebuchadnezzar:

Ezekiel 29:20
I have given him [Nebuchadnezzar] the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he has laboured, because they worked for me, says the Lord God. 

Unfortunately, here too he failed! For Nebuchadnezzar never conquered Egypt.

Anonymous · Answer

Do you have any evidence that the "prophecy" was written before the sack of Tyre?  Or could it have been written afterwards to describe what had already happened?  Besides, he got the wrong king, didn't he...

And even if it was written before, the writer certainly knew the political and military climate of his time.  It wouldn't be much of a "prophecy" for me to predict, today, that sometime in the next 6 months (see, I'll even give a time frame, unlike your bible prophecy) a city in Afghanistan will be attacked by American troops, the walls will crumble, and many of its residents will die...

It takes delusion to believe some magical, mythical god does anything in this world or tells anyone anything, in the face of the literally millions of incorrect predictions made in his name and the complete failure to find any evidence to show that any such god exists.  That occasionally somebody guesses right, or writes things down after the fact, isn't an issue of "faith" at all, just common sense.

Peace.

? · Answer

I see God's hand working in my existence whilst the effect of a few thing is plenty from what would have been predicted or assumed in this organic international. ought to they be coincidences? easily...yet when I surely have prayed approximately some thing particular and the respond or undertaking comprises bypass against all odds, i do no longer evaluate that a twist of fate.

Anonymous · Answer

'I can’t be an atheist I don’t have that much faith.'
--Whoever told you that a lack of belief requires 'faith' is 
stupid, and you repeating them isn't helping you either.

Most of the 'prophet' texts were written AFTER 
such events. It doesn't mean that there is a deity.

Anonymous · Answer

By that logic Spiderman is real because his story takes place in new york...

Tyre /Tyrus just another coincidence or proof that there is a God?

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