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Author Topic:   Fulfillments of Bible Prophecy
Richard Townsend
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Message 290 of 327 (508241)
05-11-2009 6:56 PM
Reply to: Message 289 by jaywill
05-11-2009 6:34 PM


Re: Destruction of Jerusalem 70CE prophecy
Is there a scenario by which someone after the Invasion of Pearl Habor would write a fradulant history pretending that the event was in the future to the time of writing ?
Could you see someone writing a fake history of New York after the falling of the Twin Towers pretending that such an event was a prophecy to be fulfilled in the future?
What I am hearing is that the Gospel of Mark had to have been written after the temple was destroyed by the Roman army. Such a momentous event is sneakily "ignored" by the writer except for a pretended reference to its future destruction to the events being recorded.
I think this is unrealistically conspiratorial. What I hear is the theory that AFTER the destruction the writer of Mark wrote a pretended history of Jesus totally ignoring this momentous event. Furthermore the writer of Mark pretended to make it a prophesied event to occur in the future.
Now while the writer of Mark is perpetrating this devious hoax he is also portraying high standard of morality and ethics as taught by the central figure, Jesus.
This doesn't make too much sense to me.
This is weak reasoning. All the prophecies in this thread have needed specific interpretations of the text, and the eye of faith. All these have an element of doubt to them.
I'm still looking for a prophecy that
- was made explicitly, ie does not need 'interpretation' for us to know what it means
- is specific enough to be an 'unlikely' prediction and one whose fulfillment would be clearly detectable.
- is guaranteed to have been written before the prophesied event took place
- is proven to have been fulfilled by material outside the bible
- is not potentially self-fulfilling
If I had knowledge of the future I could write any number of prophecies that would (eventually) meet my criteria. If God has shared knowledge of the future with the prophets, then so should they.
I have never seen a prophecy like that and I don't believe there are any in the bible. Can you show me to be wrong?
If there were a number of prophecies of that strength, then the claims of the bible would become more credible. It would be strong evidence that something interesting was going on.

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