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Soriku said:
Nintentacle said:

Soriku said:

Right...


I believe in the current evidence that we have. Not a collection of stories.

The idea that some god created everything is a perfectly understandable concept. With issues.

Many atheists were in fact religious at some point. Maybe this god of your should stop playing games and reveal himself to everyone, just to be fair.

Well, if you want proof, I'll give the best I can:

Job 40:15-24 sounds like a descirption of a Dinosaur, which weren't discovered until the 19th century.

Job 28:35 says the air has weight, which wasn't discovered until the 17th century.

Genesis 17:12 says to circumcise on the 8th day of a boy's life, which has been proven to be the best day.

Genesis 15:5 says the stars are uncountable, which turned out to be true.

Isaiah 66:7–8 implies that Israel would be reborn in a day, which happened in 1948.


Job 40:15-24 -  This is vague and could refer to any number of big animals that feed on grass, like elephants or rhinos. Some dinosaurs were carnivores too but the passage doesn't mention that.

I can agree with this one, it might not be Dinosaurs.

Job 28:35 - Is this the correct passage? I can't find it.

It was the wrong one. I meant to post Job 28:25.

Genesis 17:12 - Could be a coincidence and/or based on their observations.

Possibly.

Genesis 15:5: Go outside and there are a lot of stars you can view. It doesn't necessarily mean they knew there were billions, trillions of stars. Just there are a lot of stars that they might as well be considered uncountable.

What I was focusing on is that people used to think you could be able to count all the stars just by looking outside.

Isaiah 66:7-8 - Well congrats on getting one thing right I guess. Now try to rationalize these: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Failed_biblical_prophecies

On some of these, you could probably just say they haven't happened yet. As for the other ones, I answered a few (Although not perfectly):

Israelites will be unbeatable

The Israelistes are only undefeatable when they listen to God. It says when they don't, they loose against their enemies, and the land becomes unprosperous in terms of harvest.

Virgin birth

Mary wasn't married to Joseph when Jesus was born. The "marrige" was when the man and the woman had sex, which is when they were "joined together", which means that being a maiden meant that you were a virgin. So, the prophecy was still fulfilled, whether "virgin" was the correct translation or not.

The messiah will be born in Bethlehem

 It doesn't matter exactly what happened, Jesus was still born in Bethelehem.

The great disappointment

William Miller being wrong does not confirm whether the prophecy is correct or not.

Cyrus will conquer Babylon

Like the author said, Isaiah 45 never mentions Babylon, so you can't call it a Bible prophecy in the first place...