Atheist ask for proof? Why have these prophecies not been proven false?

Good one, Scriptures Only.

@Oh my Science & others. Here is one you cannot dispute. No one has even tried in the many times I've raised the point. It provides tangible, indisputable evidence of fulfilled prophecy. It's the same as "Scriptures Only" pointed out but with a little more detail.

ISAIAH prophesied about the fall of ancient Babylon in minute detail ... from the fact that the giant doors to the city gate would be inexplicably left open to the name of the military commander that would defeat that great empire ... Cyrus the Persian. That prophecy was foretold so accurately that critics claimed it was history MASQUERADING as prophecy. Problem is that among the Dead Sea Scrolls were parts of the Isaiah scroll dating back about 200 YEARS BEFORE the events Isaiah foretold. OOOPS.

The Neo Babylonian empire was not a world power it was a transient empire between the fall of Assyria and the rise of Persia. There is a good chance that the prophesies were written, like so many others in the bible, after the fall of Babylon. Babylon as a city still existed for about 400 years after the events. I believe the same prophesy was made for Tyre, well Tyre is still there. It would be common knowledge that large cities often fell and were abandoned through conquest or natural disaster. The whole landscape was littered with cities that had once dominated the area like Kish, Sippar, Uruk and so on. It wouldn't take too much wishful thinking to imagine the same happening to Babylon. The literature of oppressed people is full of this kind of wishful thinking.

And just to correct one of the people who answered your question.

The Dead Sea scrolls were only written just before or at the time that Jesus was supposed to have lived, many centuries after Isaiah had been written.

Isaiah had three separate and distinct authors. This has been known since the 19th century by biblical scholars and is almost universally accepted by them. The passages that refer to the fall of Babylon were written by Trito Isaiah, after the fall of Babylon. So it was not a prophesy, but a contemporary report.

Predicting that a city will be destroyed is not a particularly hard prediction.

But let's look at some other, more specific predictions of Isaiah:

in Isaiah 19:1-8 he prophecies that the Nile will dry up. - that has never happened.

In Isaiah 19-18 he prophecies that Egypt will speak Canaanite - that has never happened and never will now that it is a dead language.

Jeremiah 33:17 says there will ALWAYS be a descendant of David on the throne of Israel. Clearly a failed prophecy.

So, cherry picking prophecies that happened to come to pass does ont work when there are many other prophecies that are clearly false. Isaiah and Jeremiah are clearly false prophets.

The bible is what is called "Faction" A fictional story set in a factual time and place. Thus the time, place and real historical characters are all correct but the fictional characters and stories are not!

There is not one single mention of Jesus in the entire Roman record - that is right - not one! At the same time as he was supposed to have been around there were a number of Jews claiming to be the messiah - all of whom are well recorded!

There is not a single contemporary record from any source and even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!

He was supposed to have been a huge problem to the Romans and produced wonderful miracles but still not one contemporary record?

Even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!

Pilate is recorded in the Roman record as a somewhat lack luster man but no mention of a Jesus, a trial or crucifixion that would surely have been used to make him look brighter!

At best he was an amalgam of those others but almost certainly never existed!

The Roman Emperor Constantine produced the bible and he was a pagan not god! He took the Jewish religion, organized it into Christianity and then into the Holly Roman Catholic Church!! Not in Israel or any of the countries of supposed origin but entirely ITALIAN!

Not one word of it is contemporary with the period and was not written until several hundred years after the period the story is set in!! How did the apostles write their books more than a hundred years after they would have been dead?

The first person to provide a shred of verifiable evidence for God will become world famous and mega rich!

Ain't happened yet and it never will!

Saying that prophecies can provide proof for the existance of god is just as stupid as saying that science provides proof for the inexistance of god for being able to predict the weather and meteor showers.

Let me remind you that there are also prophecies outside your holy book that belong to other religions.

And that won't prove that those religions are right either.

Wow...claiming that a desert will be inhabitable for generations is obvious proof of your god! What was I thinking?!?!?

And Babylon being defeated, and written in the bible centuries after it occurred, is another obvious prophecy I overlooked!

*ROLLS EYES*

Even many Prophecies in Islam have come true.

And unlike Bible, not a single prophecy failed to fulfill

Allen 23:12 Man shall never walk the surface of the Sun!

Look I'm a prophet! I made a prophecy that will NEVER be proven false!

--not superstitious

All you did was quoted a story. I can do that to:

William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 scene 2 Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and she said thou wast my daughter; and thy father was Duke of Milan, and his only heir and princess, no worse issued.

Prophecies are a dime a dozen. Even if a couple happen to come true, that has meaning only to gullibles.