Six Failed Bible Prophecies
atheism/agnostic/spiritual Commentary
April 28, 2011
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The end of the world prophecy, just another that didn’t come to pass. Pic courtesy of
www.endoftheworld.net
The Bible is a book, not unlike a Stephen King novel
but a lot less believable and certainly less exciting.
There are a lot of things wrong with this ancient tome,
not the least of which are the many assertions, or
prophecies, claimed by the authors as absolute truths
which originated with God himself, and therefore must
not be questioned.
Well, the fact is, like many things the Old Man was alleged to have said
lots of them have been well, wrong. Here are six examples of Biblical
future telling that made about as much sense as a guy named Jesus
rising from the dead and ascending into heaven.
Let’s face it, if the Bible were true it would not contain any failed
prophecies, yet it does. Before we explore these failed prophecies let’s
discuss the so-called fulfilled prophecies. Most of the prophecies from
the Old Testament, like those fulfilled by Jesus, are only “fulfilled”
within the stories of the New Testament.
In light of the Bible being a work of fiction this is no big deal, the writers
of the New Testament simply wrote stories involving characters who
fulfilled the prophecies made in the Old Testament stories. As for the
prophecies that are claimed to have been fulfilled by actual real life
events they are vague prophecies that could easily be applied to any
number of events. There are cases where the Bible makes very specific
prophecies but to no surprise these are the ones that have failed:
Isaiah 17:1 “An oracle concerning Damascus: See, Damascus will no
longer be a city but will become a heap of ruins.”
FAIL: Damascus is still inhabited today with well over a million people
and there was never a time where it ceased to be a city. It is widely
known as being the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world.
Isaiah 19:4-5 “I will hand the Egyptians over to the power of a cruel
master, and a fierce king will rule over them, declares the Lord, the
LORD Almighty. The waters of the river will dry up, and the riverbed
will be parched and dry.”
FAIL: The river mentioned here is the Nile which never dried up and is
still one of Egypt’s greatest natural resource.
Isaiah 52:1 “Awake, awake, O Zion, clothe yourself with strength. Put
on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, the holy city. The
uncircumcised and defiled will not enter you again.”
FAIL: There are still uncircumcised people living in Jerusalem even
today.
Ezekiel 30:10-11 “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will put an
end to the hordes of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon. He and his army – the most ruthless of nations – will be
brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against
Egypt and fill the land with the slain.”
FAIL: Ezekiel predicts that Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon will conquer
Egypt utterly destroying it, slaying and scattering its people. In 568
BCE Nebuchadnezzar tried to conquer Egypt and Egypt survived with
no apparent damage. Aahmes ruled for another generation over a
prosperous Egypt and lived to see Nebuchadnezzar die. The Egyptians
were not scattered or dispersed.
Ezekiel 29:10-11 “therefore I am against you and against your
streams, and I will make the land of Egypt a ruin and a desolate
waste from Migdol to Aswan, as far as the border of Cush. The foot
of neither man nor beast will pass through it; no one will live there
for forty years.”
FAIL: Never in its long history has Egypt been uninhabited for forty
years.
Matthew 16:28 “I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will
not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his
kingdom.” 23:36 “I tell you the truth, all this will come upon this
generation.” 24:34 “I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly
not pass away until all these things have happened.”
FAIL: Jesus states in Matthew that all the signs marking the end of the
world would be fulfilled before his generation ended, before the people
that were standing infront of him “taste death.” Those people have
been dead for over 2000 years and the world did not come to an end,
neither have all those signs been fulfilled.
Many thanks to our friends at Truth Saves for story contributions.
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