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Originally Posted by 1BigOT
Ok sure I agree if that was true, however the bible is an account of things happening now not thousands of years ago. History and man's thoughts on the bible are both false, so your argument isn't applicable.
Says the true believer. If the Bible was truly prophetic it could have astounding predictions there, such as when DNA will be discovered and by whom, when the first fission and fusion bombs would be invented (along with spelling out the technology used), the date Israel would be reformed and its first Prime Minister, the years the bubonic plague would hit and its cause and cure, the name of the first Pope and his birthplace ... any of countless types of specific predictions of events to come.
But alas the Bible offers earthquakes and rumors of war type "prophecy." Well then everybody and their mother is a prophet. Its an embarrassment to consider that evidence. If the whole doctrine sounds like a magical fairy tale, replete with talking donkeys, it might be because it is exactly that: fiction, fable, myth, just-so fairy tale from a magic believing era. I mean, if you see talking donkey characters anywhere else under the sun, what do you think? "Hmm ... this is real metaphysics?"