Why do many Christians think that bible prophecies are true?

[ReligionFailsAgain]

In order for a "prophecy to be true" it has to be very specific not ambiguous.
So why do Christians accept ambiguity in the bible prophecies and equate them to be true?
@Darin
care to provide proof?
@Eric
Gee Have you heard of Harold Camping sound?

 

[Frankinsense]

O K !

LET'S TAKE DANIEL’S FIRST PROPHECY AS AN EXAMPLE:

King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream

Please read Daniel 2:19-23, 26-28, 36-45

Who was the real interpreter of King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream

Daniel told Nebuchadnezzar that he had no more wisdom within him to reveal the future than any other person living.
Every part of the dream and the interpretation were revealed by God.
Prophecy is of no private interpretation. (2 Peter 1:20) We must go to the Bible for both the prophecy and the keys to its interpretation.


Gold Head = Babylon – 605-538 BC
Silver Chest = Medo-Persia – 538-331 BC
Bronze Belly = Greece – 331-168 BC
Iron Legs = Rome – 168 BC – 476 AD
Iron and Clay Feet = Rome divided – 476 to the present.
Stone that fills the Earth = God’s everlasting kingdom – Jesus second coming.

Daniel said: “They will not adhere to one another.”
These seven words have stood in the way of “world” unity for more than 1500 years. The fourth kingdom rose and fell just as predicted. The fourth kingdom was divided just as predicted. We are now living in the era of Iron & Clay, just as predicted.

From the ‘Head of Gold’ to the ‘Feet of Iron & Clay,’ as Nebuchadnezzar’s dream image prophecy has been fulfilled to the very letter. 2500 years have proved Daniel’s prophecy totally accurate.



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[andie]

Specific Bible prophecies have already come true. I'm not talking about generalities either. It specifically predicted a ruler rising out of Greece to conquer the Media-Persia empire and much of the world many, many years before it happened. It predicted specific things about him and also that after his death, his kingdom would be divided into four parts - which happened, if you've read any history and know that four of his generals divided Alexander the Great's kingdom among themselves.

 

[Harrison]

You fail again. You try to pass Heavenly things through the sieve of your pagan mind and expect something to stick.

 

[AtheistWarrior]

It's so vague and it could be applied to anything to them that's the truth lol

 

[Eric]

What ambiguity, for example? You are quick to accuse but slow to provide evidence. The prophecy found in the book of Revelation is quite specific and people shall understand it when it is being fulfilled. I think that your logic fails.

 

[Darrin]

Because they have been proven to come true. More than 2/3 of bible prophesies have been fulfilled........>

 

[ArthurLowitzer]

Gullibility and/or stupidity

 

[Bekka]

What is ambiguous is how they are "interpreted"

The Word of God is true as are all prophesies contained within.

What Christians deny this?

 

[TaoMan]

Because they accept, they are not required nor encouraged to think.

 

[jotun_hertigen]

They are true because we make them true. For example: the Bible says that God supports and defends Israel. Except that God does neither and does not give Israel even one drop of manna. So the U.S. tax payer has spent $ 3,000,000,000,000.00 or more so far to support Israel both militarily and economically. Not because the Bible and it's predictions are true, but precisely because the Bible and it's predictions are NOt true. Hence the Bible predictions become true; and that is why Christians believe in the Bible's predictions.

 

[bmisinki]

Check out the book of Isaiah. It gives a pretty solid desription of Jesus at one point, without calling him by name, talking about how he was "pierced for our transgressions" and things like that. It's pretty spot on..and in no way is "ambiguous".

 

[TheRemnant]

We can all agree the scriptures/writings existed before the 1500's. With that in mind here is prophecy that has been fulfilled and is historically accurate. The transatlantic slave trade which is world reknown and legendary. The Father prophecised the captivity of Israel many of which are applicable today:


Deut 28:32"Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and yearn for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do.

Deut 28:37"You shall become a horror, a proverb, and a taunt among all the people where the LORD drives you.
Deut 28:41" You shall have sons and daughters but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.

Deut 28:43" The alien who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower. 44" He shall lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you will be the tail. 45"So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. 46"They shall become a sign and a wonder on you and your descendants forever.

Deut 28:59then the LORD will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, even severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses.

Deut 28:62"Then you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not obey the LORD your God. 64"Moreover, the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known. 65"Among those nations you shall find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul. 66"So your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you will be in dread night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.
67"In the morning you shall say, 'Would that it were evening!' And at evening you shall say, 'Would that it were morning!' because of the dread of your heart which you dread, and for the sight of your eyes which you will see. 68"The LORD will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I spoke to you, 'You will never see it again!' And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer."

Honestly, are the above verses reflective of the so called modern "jew" (bankers; entertainment executives; wall street moguls; holocaust survivors; israelis etc...) today??? Be honest with yourselves. The above is a checklist.

Still in denial then read Rev 2:9 & Rev 3:9 and re-read Deut 28 again...match it up. That's just a small nugget.

 

[Salvaged]

http://www.greatcom.org/resources/areadydefense/ch06/default.htm

Check it out

 

[Lara]

You obviously have not taken the time to read the Old Testament properly.

 

[whtleopard11]

Cause it is truth. No "ifs" or "buts". Those prophesies were not man made up. They were inspired by the Spirit of God which is truth.
I'll give you one great example - God's perfect plan of salvation "Jesus the perfect Lamb" for the salvation of many souls.
As it was clearly prophesied through out the Old Testament, of his death and his resurrection especially in Psalms.
God gave his Christ ( meaning his salvation ) Jesus. We Christians are the results of what Christ did for us and that prophesy being fulfilled.

John 12
32And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
33This he said, signifying what death he should die.

Jesus said this too:

Matthew 12
17 Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
18 For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.

 

[telleroftruths]

Bible prophecy “God .*.*. cannot lie.” (Titus 1:2) Hence, what he foretells always comes true, including the Bible prophecies concerning the end of the present world. (Isaiah 55:11; Matthew 24:3-14) Who will survive the coming destruction? “He that does the will of God remains forever,” says 1*John 2:17.
About a hundred years before the fall of the Assyrian Empire, Isaiah declared that Jehovah God would call those proud conquerors to account for their insolence toward his people. “I shall make an accounting for the fruitage of the insolence of the heart of the king of Assyria and for the self-importance of his loftiness of eyes,” Jehovah said. (Isaiah 10:12) Furthermore, God’s prophet Nahum foretold that Nineveh would be plundered, its gates would be opened to its enemies, and its guards would flee. (Nahum 2:8,*9; 3:7, 13, 17,*19) The Bible prophet Zephaniah wrote that the city would become “a desolate waste.”—Zephaniah 2:13-15.
Those prophecies of destruction were fulfilled in 632*B.C.E. That is when Nineveh fell to the combined forces of the Babylonians and the Medes, bringing the Assyrian Empire to an inglorious end. A Babylonian chronicle of that event states that the conquerors “carried off the vast booty of the city and the temple” and turned Nineveh “into a ruin heap.” Today the desolate waste that was once Nineveh is marked by mounds of ruins on the east bank of the Tigris River, opposite the city of Mosul, in Iraq.
Assyria’s destruction also contributed to the fulfillment of yet another Bible prophecy. Earlier, in 740*B.C.E., Assyria took the ten-tribe kingdom into exile. About the same time that Assyria did this, God’s prophet Isaiah foretold that Jehovah would “break the Assyrian,” “tread him down,” and bring Israel back to its homeland. Isaiah wrote: “The remnant of his people who will remain over from Assyria*.*.*.*, he [God] will collect together.” That is exactly what occurred—about two hundred years later!—Isaiah