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How to disprove the predictions in the Bible?

Ok, I am an atheist but was raised a Christian so alot of my friends are religious. I've only started to tell people that I am an atheist because I am in a situation now that it wouldn't affect me negatively to do so and of course my religious friends like to ask me how so many of the Bible's predictions are true, like the one that says the earth was round thousands of years ahead of when that was accepted as the general consensus. Now I'm no history buff but I'm guessing that the Bible got that from somewhere else since its just a compilation of many stories and other books and added it in, so its not that the Bible said it first or maybe there is another way to disprove it, do you atheists know of any way to disprove that the Bible "predicts" this stuff because there are quite a few true "predictions" and its hard to say the writers just got lucky.

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  • 8 years ago
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    As for the Earth being a sphere, the bible got that one wrong. Actual words are 'round' like a disc. Not quite the same.

    As for the rest of the so called 'predictions', you can't really write about a prediction at the beginning of the book and then write about it coming true at the end, can you? That would prove Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was true too, wouldn't it?

  • 8 years ago

    The Bible says the Earth is a disk, not a sphere. If that's a prediction, it is a bad one.

    The Bible is more wrong than right when it comes to history and science. It doesn't really do a great job in direct prophecies, either. The Bible says that Jesus said he'd come back in the lifetime of his disciples. He's 2000 years late already. In fact, it says this several different ways in several books. That's fairly major, but Christians gloss over that one.

    There are some "prophecies" in the Old Testament that seem fairly accurate, at least until you start reading the history of the religion. You'll find that "prophets" back then liked to claim they had a prophecy that told about past events and worked towards future events. The past events were used to bolster the credibility of the prophecy so people would heed what it said about the future. It would be as if I claimed to know of a prophecy that said, "In the ruler's son's reign, two iron birds will topple two towers of finance and a third shall hit his armory, this shall be the prelude to economic collapse, then if the country does not start on the righteous path, the country shall be split in two and then halved again before being sold off." Note how I started my "prophecy" with events that already happened (Bush Jr. and 9/11), then I went on to how it was a sign of moral depravity that would lead to ruin in the future. This was the model for many Old Testament prophecies. The latter half of those prophecies, the parts not written after the fact, had a bad track record. But their purpose was to put the Israelite people back on the "right path", as defined by the "prophet". Most of these "prophecies" were made to sway people's political opinions.

    For something that is supposed to be divinely inspired, the Bible sure has a lousy track record when it comes to prophecies.

    Religion is faulty superstition.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    there are no "predictions" that have come true in the Bible. About the Earth, it never says it's ROUND, it talks about the CIRCLE of the Earth. that's not a SPHERE. If you look at a flat earth from god's point of view -above- you will see a circle. You tell me ONE "prediction" that has come true. You can't.

  • Judah
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    Isaiah is who wrote that one and he lived around 600 B.C. All Scripture is inspired by God.

    If you take 48 OT prophecies concerning the 1st coming of the Messiah, Peter Stoner, an expert mathematician calculated the odds of any one man fulfilling 48 to be 1 with 157 zeros after it. 1 with 50 zeros is said to be impossible, with God all things are possible, Jesus fulfilled those 48 prophecies to the letter.

    Read the Christ prophecy at http://sciencespeaks.net/

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Daniel "predicted" that Greece and Rome would be major powers 200 years AFTER they were major powers.

  • 8 years ago

    You can't. Fulfilled prophesy is one of the strongest arguments for the bible being inspired by God. And, I'm not talking about scientific predictions like the one about the Earth being a sphere. Just the prophesies about Christ alone are so far beyond chance that if you don't believe they prove the Bible, then you must have a worldview that won't allow the truth to change your mind.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Just look around you. Everything you see and hear proves that the bible is just a fairy tale.

  • 8 years ago

    you cannot disprove the prophecies in the bible. everyhing will be fullfiled. the warnings are so true.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    There's no need, the bible disproves itself. Just read it.

  • You can't, it has been correct so far!

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