Posted on 04/07/2024 5:28:40 PM PDT by grumpa
Why would you accept discrepancies in texts supposedly inspired by an infallible being capable of absolutely everything? Can’t get a proper editor but can read my thoughts and send natural disasters to kill infidels?
Useless questions that do NOT disprove normal, commonly accepted interpretation of prophecy in Scripture.
Nonsense.
No mark of the beast for buying and selling, nor any 1,000 year reign of Christ with Him ruling with a rod of iron.
You fail.
Excellent list of questions. Ultimately one concludes that the pre tribulation rapture philosophy is a modernist philosophy dating to the early 1800s and contradicts what Christians have believed for 2000 years
The idea that everything has to be knowable is not an assertion that can be supported by any known rules of logic and rationality. It is a vaporous assertion.
An omnipresent being should be able to communicate more efficiently.
Presumes that an "efficient" communication by an omnipresent being will be understood by finite minds.
Arguments against unknowability of certain spiritual matters quickly run into insurmountable logical problems.
To: Nervous Tick
I like your screen name. Did Jesus return in AD 70? See my articles “What Does the Bible Say about the Timing of Jesus’ Second Coming?” and “What Does the Bible say about the Nature of Jesus’ Second Coming?”
https://prophecyquestions.com/category/second-coming/
Yes. Of course.
It’s all unknowable. A mystery.
Yet we are inundated daily with people claiming truth that should be followed by all because they have correctly interpreted the will of god.
And we’re not supposed to be suspicious?
Cmon.
bro....I'd reevaluate my positions if I were you. You've got cronos in your corner.
NO. How about you just simply answer the question instead of pimping your blog all the time.
And he’s making the wrong statement/prediction after the event has happened.
Calling the balls and strikes after the inning ended.
You can’t make this up.
Well, yeah ya can!! He's proof of that!! LOL!
He never said His generation. It says in that generation.
bkmk
29 But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s Kingdom.”
No one says "all is unknowable". The future is unknowable. But the past is not, especially well documented historical events.
Yet we are inundated daily with people claiming truth that should be followed by all because they have correctly interpreted the will of god.
We should be suspicious of people claiming to divine the future based on Biblical prophecies, because those things are truly unknowable.
But there are several other very plain assertions in the Bible that are injunctions or commandments whose meaning is quite clear. Such as "Do not kill", or the golden rule, or "Pray to God."
18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
Yet this is a thread about biblical prophecy.
If it’s unknowable, what’s the point?
Don’t kill or treating people with respect doesn’t require a god to come up with.
Ephesians 6:5
The "point" behind prophecies may be as unknowable as the correct meaning of those prophecies themselves. We need to accept that. Further, prophecies are only a small part of the Bible. Most of it, especially in the New Testament (other than Revelation), is prescriptive rather than prophetic.
Don’t kill or treating people with respect doesn’t require a god to come up with.
Yes it does, and non-God justifications quickly run into impenetrable logical obstacles and philosophical tripwires. Lots of good work has been done on this topic in recent decades (e.g. by Alvin Plantinga and W.L. Craig) - easily accessible on the internet including Youtube.
The first known prohibition of murder preceded the Jewish god. So unless the god of the moon or sun is the real one, no, laws against murder require no god.
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