Are any of these prophecies fulfilled by Jesus?

Obviously, it is going to end with the world. Duh!ABE: Do you smell a moose? Edited by Catholic Scientist, : No reason given.Edited by AdminPD, : Warning

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Americans for Better EducationTo not stray to fare from topicHow can they say a prophecy is furfilled if it is in both pars of the bible. Its like saying it was told that harry potter will slay that evil dude in book 1 and he slayed him in the last book (or so i think i did not read it or watch the movie yet). So the prophecy came true harry must be a real person and the best wizard ever. Edited by AdminPD, : Warning

One point I would like to make sure is clear to all, in this thread I am not attacking the Bible, but rather the misuse and perversion of the Bible.Efforts like those seen in this thread, taking things out of context, misrepresentations of what is actually in the Bible to support dogma and attempts to make it appear as one book with one subject simply diminishes and devalues the Bible and what can be learned from it.It is not the Bible I oppose, just the falsehoods attributed to it.

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Added By Edit.AbE:I forgot to address your question. Yes, if that happened it would just be fiction, and unfortunately in the case of most claimed prophecy that is EXACTLY what happens.The problem is that most Christians at least seem to be clueless about prophecy was all about.In the Bible, prophecy was a message from God to his people, the people living at the time of the utterance, a celestial dope slap. It was God saying "If you keep doing what you are doing then all hell will break lose."It was not always immediate, but the message was meant to be acted on right then.An example is the story of Joseph and the seven year cycle; Joseph telling Pharaoh that "hey, we are having good times now but they may not last, and unless you put stuff aside now you gonna be hurting then."The idea that God had to leave clues in obscure language with a people that have been dead for thousands and thousands of years for folk today or even in our future is just plain silly. God is perfectly capable of reaching folk today in our own media and those living in the future in theirs.Again, the problem is not the Bible or its contents, it is the readers misunderstanding.Edited by jar, : add answer to his question.

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Yeah that's right Crashfrog. I am sick of
listening to all of you big mouths mocking
God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
I have never once seen jar get even one
single scripture right. He twists everything
he speaks about acting like he is a big
authority on the bible. He consistantly
calls God a liar and tries to act like he
knows God when he doesn't have the slightest
clue about the true and living God....so yeah, long after jar and the rest of us
are long gone the truth of God will go marching
on changing lives and saving souls. 100 years
from now not one thing any of you have said will
be remembered but not even one word of
God will pass away and none of you can
do anything about it.over & out Edited by AdminPD, : Warning

1) Are you proclaiming yourself God? If not why do you presume to speak for God?2) Any literate and reasonably neutral party to this debate can obviously see that your knowledge of the contents of the Bible is vastly inferior to jar's (and Purpledawn, Ringo, and Dr Bill). Have you even read it once, cover to cover? And if indeed even so, did you read it for understanding or to validate preconceived notions?3) You do realize that placing yourself as speaking for God, over the Bible, places you in violation of the commandment against having other gods before me.4) You do realize that misrepresenting what the Bible actually states, places you in violation of the commandment against bearing false witness.5) You do realize that your gargantuan personal ego is a direct affront to the very Jesus you so proclaim to follow.Nothing but common self-righteous authoritarianism, pwned by your own tantrum.I will give jar a POTM for the whole thread as soon as I can figure out to which month it belongs. In the meantime it is the high 5 all the way.{ABE} except for a few low content ones, I personally prefer honesty to being the lackey of some ignorant authoritarian preacher. {/ABE} Edited by anglagard, : No reason given.Edited by AdminPD, : Warning

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Hi ICDESIGN,I really think you need to calm down some. Jar has offered you his opinion on the scripture quotes you chose to bring up. His view differs from yours and he has been good enough to expound upon why this is.You have not even tried to tell us what is supposed to be wrong with jar's interpretations. All you have done is shout and offer vague threats of violence. That is extremely poor form and all the worse because I happen to know that you are capable of better. a) Why the short line-breaks? Quit hitting enter!b) If you don't like it here, no-one is forcing you to stay, but this is a debate site. Confronting opposing opinions is what it's all about. If you can't handle that, you really are wasting your time here. Feel free to go back to surrounding yourself with people who will never challenge your beliefs. Great. It should be easy then, to explain to us where jar is getting it wrong. Simply shouting that he is wrong or a liar is pointless, childish and pathetic.Of course, if your true aim is to discredit Christianity by making its adherents seem like petty, petulant fools, who are unable to back up their beliefs with reasoned arguments, go right ahead, You're on the right track.Mutate and Survive Edited by AdminPD, : Warning

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On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage

So here is where we stand as of this point.ICDESIGN has presented six examples that he claimed were prophecies fulfilled by Jesus, and also six other quote mines that I think he thought somehow refuted either what I was saying or what I was doing.I have tried to examine each in context and also to explain some of the background that lead to their creation.None of the former seem to be prophecies about Jesus and the only one that might actually be said to have been fulfilled by Jesus even says right in the quote he used as support, that it was contrived, done simply to match what was in the record. If the New Testament event even really happened it was not an example of fulfilling prophecy but rather creating a false prophecy.Of the latter group, when his quotes were examined in context it seems that instead of refuting my position that each and every one actually supported my position. In particular, the last one is very important because it pointed to a failed prophecy that forced a total change in the Christian message and practice.I know that there are many, many claims of fulfilled prophecy that are used as marketing tools in Christianity, and I am happy to continue to examine them one at a time.If anyone disagrees with what I have presented I hope that they will post the best support for their argument.If anyone has a Biblical prophecy they believe was fulfilled, then I hope they will bring it up; but please, no nonsense like a link to some site that claims hundreds of such critters, let's deal with one at a time.I, as a devout Christian, am not attacking GOD or Jesus or Christianity, only the misuse of the Bible and those practices that devalue and diminish its messages.

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

The Jeremiah quote is also another example of quote mining.

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Jeremiah 23:5 (New International Version, 2010)

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5 The days are coming, declares the LORD,
when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch,
a King who will reign wisely
and do what is just and right in the land.

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Again, let's look at the background.Jeremiah like Micah and Isaiah lived during the period when the Great Power was shifting to the North. Judah, the nation where Jeremiah lived and preached is the setting, and the events of Israel (remember it is a separate Nation) and Judah are the subject matter.The writings of Jeremiah span a period that covers five different Kings of Judah and revolves around the power plays between the North and South, between Egypt and Babylon.The saga begins likely around the ascendancy of Josiah to the throne of Judah.Josiah's father and grandfather, Amon and Manasseh had opened Judah to multiple religions, religious freedom and allowed the worship and practices of other gods.The period when Jeremiah is preaching is one of great turmoil both internally and externally, of reform within Judah and the creation of an exclusive Jewish state.Jeremiah 23 is from a later stage, Assyria is waning, Babylon on the rise and Egypt also recovering and once again becoming a Great Power.Now let's look at the passage in context.

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Jeremiah 23 (New International Version, 2010)

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Jeremiah 23
The Righteous Branch

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1 Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture! declares the LORD. 2 Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to the shepherds who tend my people: Because you have scattered my flock and driven them away and have not bestowed care on them, I will bestow punishment on you for the evil you have done, declares the LORD. 3 I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and will bring them back to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and increase in number. 4 I will place shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or terrified, nor will any be missing, declares the LORD.

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5 The days are coming, declares the LORD,
when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch,
a King who will reign wisely
and do what is just and right in the land.
6 In his days Judah will be saved
and Israel will live in safety.
This is the name by which he will be called:
The LORD Our Righteous Savior.

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7 So then, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when people will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,’ 8 but they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the descendants of Israel up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had banished them.’ Then they will live in their own land.

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Here as in the other examples folk have cited, when seen in context it is speaking of contemporary issues, not of things 500 and more years in the future.

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

yes, the bible has quite a lot to say about false prophets. for instance, how to tell whether a prophet is false, and what the punishment is for pretending to be a prophet.

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But the prophet, that shall speak a word presumptuously in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.' And if thou say in thy heart: 'How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?' When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken; the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously, thou shalt not be afraid of him.

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Deuteronomy 18:20-22

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and contrary to your point, it encourages viewing prophecy -- all prophecy -- with a high degree of skepticism. the test is not the fact that someone said something, or that it was written somewhere, but that the thing prophesied actually comes to pass.unfortunately, many of these claimed christ prophecies simply aren't. most have to do with other things. for instance, the cited one from isaiah 7 was indeed fulfilled: roughly six hundred years before the birth of christ. it simply can't have been about jesus in way, shape, or form. context doesn't fit, literal grammar doesn't fit, and jesus was named yehoshua, not imanuel.stretching prophecy in this way is highly dishonest, to the degree that it should fail that skeptical view encouraged by the old testament. if the prophet elijah said, "yahweh will send a holy fire down on mount carmel to consume the offering", and 2 years later, he rubbed some sticks together, none of the priests of baal would have taken him seriously. nor would anyone else.god does not weasel. his proof leaves no doubt. and sadly, by far the least understood. but keep trying, one day you will get it.

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well, the thing is that it's possible for neatly tied prophetic story arcs in singular works of fiction. all (legitimate) harry potter books have a single author: jk rowling. so she can write that harry will defeat voldemort in the first book, have him do it in the 7th, and everything ties up nice and tightly. these books were all written by one person, and within a short period of time. but even if we extend the period of time, we start to run into problems. for instance, george lucas couldn't even keep historical data straight in the star wars series.of course, even the highest degree of internal consistency doesn't say much about the historical accuracy of the text, does it? fiction can be internally consistent. but it's not always. perfectly consistent might even be a hint that something is fiction -- but so would a certain degree of inconsistency....and stretching context beyond belief? well. who knows what to make of that. and it's important to remember this. prophecy is meaningless outside of its historical context: the people it was given to. and reading that makes it nonsense to the person listening to the prophet speak is nonsense itself. the problem is that some of the readers of the bible also added to it. clearly, matthew reads isaiah 7 as applying to christ, when clearly it should not.

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OMG - Arach !!! Welcome back Please please stick around - I have seriously missed your posts.