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Anonymous asked in Society & CultureReligion & Spirituality · 1 decade ago

Athiests.. can you name some bible scriptures for me?

that are prophetic in nature and has not yet come to pass?

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  • Jess H
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    Genesis 26:4 "And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed."

    ---Here God tells Isaac that his descendents (Hebrews) will be as numerous as the stars. Considering the number of stars there are in the universe, that would have to be on the order of trillions of Jewish people.

    Isaiah 17:1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

    ---Damascus is still inhabited today with over a million people, and hardly a ruinous heap.

    Isaiah 19:4-5 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts. And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

    ---The river mentioned here is the Nile. The Nile is still one of Egypt's greatest natural resource.

    Isaiah 19:18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.

    ---The Canaanite language has never been spoken in Egypt, and is now an extinct.

    Isaiah 52:1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

    ---There are uncircumcised people living in Jerusalem even today.

    Ezekiel 29:10-11 Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia. No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.

    ---Never in its long history has Egypt ever been uninhabited for forty years.

    Jonah 3:4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

    ---Nineveh was never overthrown. Why? Because God changed his mind in verse 3:10, despite what Malachi 3:6, Numbers 23:19 and Ezekiel 24:14 says about God never changing his mind.

    Matthew 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

    ---Jesus states that all the signs marking the end of the world in Matthew 24 would be fulfilled before his generation ended. That generation ended 2000 years ago, and the world has not come to an end, neither has all those signs been fulfilled.

    There's plenty more where those came from. I'd be here all day if I had to list them all.

  • 1 decade ago

    What the Gazoo said and look at jewfaq.com for all the misinterpreted prophecies of Jesus being the Messiah..

    'smart mama', reading the Bible is what turns many atheist so you're 'question' is irrelevant

    'the truth hurts', look at that first quote (from the Book of Mark)...I don't think it says anything about generations...what word/phrase are you going to twist 'out of context' to defend your mythology based belief system now?

  • 1 decade ago

    I haven't seen them come up with any yet. The one where Jesus says that he will return during "this generation" is misunderstood by the Atheists, as usual. He was talking about a bunch of stuff that would take place in the future, and He said "this generation" referring to the generation that would see all that, NOT the generation he was addressing.

    Gee, that was easy.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Revelations for the most part... any chapter will do... but let's see some of the first ones...

    1:13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.

    1:14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;

    1:15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Those verses are extremely ambiguous, leaving a wide margin for error. If I was to predict 9/11, "Four planes will be hijacked by a radical Muslim group out of Saudi Arabia that will crash all the planes into landmarks and kill thousands" would be more accurate than "a flying machine will crash into a building and people die."

    The latter is like the Bible. It's ambiguity leaves multiple outlets for "fulfillment".

  • 5 years ago

    Hitler develop into into eugenics. I disagree with what he did, however the Bible could be used to back up what he did. Jesus got here for the Jews first, and that they rejected him, and the gentiles time-honored him. Hitler develop into getting rid of Jews. Hitler additionally killed homosexuals, and how many persons are on right here argueing continuously that the Bible says homosexuality is faulty?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Well....Jesus didn't show back up that same generation like he said over and over

    Mark 9:1 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.

    Luke 9:27 But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.

    Mark 13:30 Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.

    Mark 14:62 And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

    Matthew 16:28 Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

    Matthew 23:36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It's been ages since I read the book.

    However, self fulfilling prophecies and those that are so vague they can be interpreted any way you wish don't count as evidence for the books accuracy.

  • 1 decade ago

    The entire Bible has never been right even once except in the sense that astrology is correct when it says:

    "something will happen today".

  • 1 decade ago

    I thought Atheist didn't believe in a "God" so why are you asking them to read the bible.

    Source(s): Just Wondering
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