Example of a false biblical prophecy
Farrell Till jftill@midwest.net
Thu, 15 Jan 1998 17:06:15 -0800 (00884934375, 2.2.32.19980116010615.006a0f68@midwest.net)
At 02:56 PM 1/15/98 -0600, Tod wrote:
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>By the way Farrell, if you read this, who first established these criteria
>for claiming prophecy fulfillment?
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TILL
First of all, these criteria are simply a matter of logic and common sense.
I have also seen them listed in fundamentalist writings. Wayne Jackson, a
preacher in the Church of Christ, has used them in his monthly paper
*Christian Courier.*
TOD
>At any rate, if this isn't a failed prophecy, there simply is no such
>thing as a failed prophecy.
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TILL
You won't get much reaction from the biblicists on this list, because I have
posted this same example of failed prophecy at least twice, and the only
response that I recall was one that said Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar were
just being used to figuratively represent the rulers of Egypt and the
territory once occupied by Babylon, and so the prophecy could yet be
fulfilled. Yeah, right! The figurative approach can explain anything,
can't it?
Since Dennis seems to think that the prophecy was fulfilled, I would ask him
to present evidence that Egypt was ever completely desolate of human and
animal habitation for a period of 40 years. No such evidence can be shown,
yet this is what the prophecy predicted.
Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net