Gen 22:17 failure? Can anyone explain this false prophecy?

This verse says that Abraham's descendants will be as numerous as the stars. If all humans were descended from Abraham we still have a LONG way to go. Can anyone explain this seemingly failed prophecy?





';I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies';





If you need to ask for the context google for the entire book of Genesis, I'm not posting 30 pages of context in a Y!A question.Gen 22:17 failure? Can anyone explain this false prophecy?
I thought the descendant chain was broken when Jesus Christ was sacrificed back to God.Gen 22:17 failure? Can anyone explain this false prophecy?
You misstated your question. You claim that genesis 22:17 states Abraham's descendants will be AS NUMEROUS as the sand and the stars, but this is not what the passage states.





The passage, as you have quoted, states ';AS THE STARS in the sky'; and ';AS THE SAND on the seashore.'; This is a comparison, not a 1:1 numerical relationship, consistent with the original Hebrew.





God is not and did not say Abraham's descendants would be equal in number to the sand or the stars, he was saying that even as one can not number the stars or the sand, neither will his descendants be counted.





Genesis 22:17 has been fulfilled. How many descendants does Abraham have?
that was a little colorization We all are from Abraham What should God tell him !! He said there will be as much people as the stars in thew sky count how many stars do you see in the Sky and how much people are there ok Dont count all the stars but only those you can see from your star ! As to sand its just another way of saying there gona be a billion tons of People living in the future please try to think in Ancient cryteria before you say that the prophecy is a fake !
Who says it won't eventually be fulfilled? Have you travelled to the end of time or something? Or do you want us to think that you're eternal and that you transcend space and time?
Its a metaphor. Not to be taken so literally. There are more visible stars in the sky than you could count with out tracking them some how. The same can now be said for humans.
The fulfillment of that verse is still on going.There are a 100,000,000,000 stars in our galaxy alone.Earth is a globe so we can View our galaxy completely from one point to another. THANK YOU D'S
because its not literal. when i was a christian, i knew that most if not all of the bible wasn't literal.
In the context of Genesis 22 God told Abraham to go outside and look at the stars in the heavens and then said that Abraham's descendants would be that numerous. Even on a good night Abraham could not see the billions of stars that actually exist. God's point was that at a cursory glance the descendants of Abraham would be innumerable. That prophecy has been fulfilled.





Hyperbole is part of literature, and God telling Abraham that his descendants would be as the stars in the sky and the sand of the sea sounds a lot like hyperbole. In John 3.16 Jesus is in a conversation with a Pharisee and speaks very directly to Nicodemus' question about how one enters the kingdom of God. One enters based on the love of God to the whole world through Jesus, the Son of God. God is allowed to use any and all of the devices of literature to communicate in a way that is normal for humans to understand.