Thursday, February 4, 2010

What Are the False Prophecies in the Bible?

Can anyone tell me or give me a link to all the prophecies in the bible that are vague/false/self fulfilled?What Are the False Prophecies in the Bible?
The prophecies in the OT about Jesus being the mesiah for a start -





Prophecies to Identify the Messiah, Which Jesus Does Not Fulfill:





1) Matthew 1:23 says that Jesus (the messiah) would be called Immanuel, which means ';God with us.'; Yet no one, not even his parents, call him Immanuel at any point in the bible.


2) The Messiah must be a physical descendant of David (Romans 1:3 %26amp; Acts 2:30). Yet, how could Jesus meet this requirement since his genealogies in Matthew 1 and Luke 3 show he descended from David through Joseph, who was not his natural father because of the Virgin Birth. Hence, this prophecy could not have been fulfilled.


3) Isaiah 7:16 seems to say that before Jesus had reached the age of maturity, both of the Jewish countries would be destroyed. Yet there is no mention of this prophecy being fulfilled in the New Testament with the coming of Jesus, hence this is another Messiah prophecy not fulfilled.





Prophecies Christians Use to Verify Jesus as the Messiah, Yet Clearly Fail:





4) The gospels (especially Matthew 21:4 and John 12:14-15) claim that Jesus fulfills the prophecy of Zechariah 9:9. But the next few verses (Zechariah 9:10-13) show that the person referred to in this verse is a military king that would rule ';from sea to sea';. Since Jesus had neither an army nor a kingdom, he could not have fulfilled this prophecy.


5) Matthew (Matthew 2:17-18) quotes Jeremiah (Jeremiah 31:15), claiming that it was a prophecy of King Herod鈥檚 alleged slaughter of the children in and around Bethlehem after the birth of Jesus. But this passage refers to the Babylonian captivity, as is clear by reading the next two verses (Jeremiah 31:16-17), and, thus, has nothing to do with Herod鈥檚 massacre.


6) John 19:33 says that during Jesus鈥?crucifixion, the soldiers didn鈥檛 break his legs because he was already dead. Verse John 19:36 claims that this fulfilled a prophecy: ';Not a bone of him shall be broken.'; But there is no such prophecy. It is sometimes said that the prophecy appears in Exodus 12:46, Numbers 9:12 %26amp; Psalm 34:20. This is not correct. Exodus 12:46 %26amp; Numbers 9:12 are not prophecies, they are commandments. The Israelites are told not to break the bones of the Passover lamb, and this is all it is about. And Psalm 34:20 seems to refer to righteous people in general (see verse Psalm 34:19, where a plural is used), not to make a prophecy about a specific person.


7) ';When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.'; Hosea 11:1. Matthew (Matthew 2:15) claims that the flight of Jesus鈥?family to Egypt is a fulfillment of this verse. But Hosea 11:1 is not a prophecy at all. It is a reference to the Hebrew exodus from Egypt and has nothing to do with Jesus. Matthew tries to hide this fact by quoting only the last part of the verse (';Out of Egypt I have called my son';).


8) ';But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.'; Micah 5:2 The gospel of Matthew (Matthew 2:5-6) claims that Jesus鈥?birth in Bethlehem fulfils this prophecy. But this is unlikely for two reasons.


A) ';Bethlehem Ephratah'; in Micah 5:2 refers not to a town, but to a clan: the clan of Bethlehem, who was the son of Caleb鈥檚 second wife, Ephrathah (1 Chronicles 2:18, 2:50-52 %26amp; 4:4).


B) The prophecy (if that is what it is) does not refer to the Messiah, but rather to a military leader, as can be seen from Micah 5:6. This leader is supposed to defeat the Assyrians, which, of course, Jesus never did. It should also be noted that Matthew altered the text of Micah 5:2 by saying: ';And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Judah'; rather than ';Bethlehem Ephratah'; as is said in Micah 5:2. He did this, intentionally no doubt, to make this verse appear to refer to the town of Bethlehem rather than the family clan.What Are the False Prophecies in the Bible?
When Saul went to the witch for advice, the spirit that responded was certainly not Samuel. It was hostile and evil, and the things it prophesied did not come true. There was a false prophet who dared to oppose a real prophet in front of a king. A wooden yoke was involved. There was another false prophet who tormented Ahab(?), and the writer went to laughable lengths to try to prove he was a real prophet, but it didn't work. For one thing, being eaten by a lion was not uncommon in those days.
There are no real fulfilled prophecies in the Bible of any significance. Many books of the Bible were written well after the events they described and prophecies were inserted in them to make them look like they were fulfilled. Bible believers will also frequently misrepresent the facts to make it appear that biblical prophecies have been fulfilled.





Some prophecies were made at the time they were written, but they weren't fulfilled, like Ezekiel's prophecy that Nebuchadrezzar's army would totally destroy Tyre and that it would never be rebuilt (Ezekiel 26). Nebuchadrezzar failed to destroy Tyre (the war ended in a stalemate after 13 years), so Bible believers say it was fulfilled with Alexander's destruction of Tyre two and a half centuries later. But that is not what the prophecy says; Ezekiel made it clear that Nebuchadrezzar would destroy Tyre, and his prophecy was directed against the Tyrians of his own time because they had reveled in Jerusalem's destruction (Nebuchadrezzar was preparing to attack Tyre when Ezekiel made his prophecy). In any case, contrary to Ezekiel's prophecy that it would never be rebuilt, Tyre was rebuilt not long after Alexander's destruction and it is still an important city today. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyre_(city)





Some time after giving his prophecy against Tyre, Ezekiel prophesied that Nebuchadrezzar would conquer Egypt and that Egypt would be abandoned for forty years and its inhabitants scattered among all the nations (Ezekiel 29). That prophecy was also unfulfilled. Bible believers, of course, rarely mention this prophecy because it would be too hard to make it seem as if it were fulfilled.





Other prophecies were written so vaguely that they could be interpreted to mean whatever one wants. Some prophecies supposedly about Jesus are of this type.





Some later books of the Bible were written to make it look like some earlier prophecies were fulfilled. Matthew, in particular, wrote his gospel this way. Part of the problem here is that some of the prophecies he used were not meant to be the way he used them, like the prophecy about the virgin birth. That prophecy had nothing to do with the messiah, and it was actually not about a virgin giving birth, but about a young woman (the original Hebrew word means young woman, not virgin) giving birth in the near future, not about a birth that would take place several hundred years later. Isaiah's prophecy was about an event that would take place in the near future when the child was only a few years old (Isaiah 7:14-16).
Actually, several - that no one yet mentioned - appear in the book of Jeremiah. Much of Jeremiah deals with these false prophets *and* their false prophecies.





As far as I know, there are no self-fulfilling prophecies in the bible.





Revelation is chock-full of vague prophecies, and more can be found in Daniel.





Jim, http://www.bible-reviews.com
Isaiah falsely predict that Babylon will never again be inhabited. (13:19-20) and that Damascus will be completely destroyed and no longer be inhabited. Yet Damascus has never been completely destroyed and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities. (17:1)





More from Isaiah:





';The land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt.'; Judah never invaded Egypt and was never a military threat to Egypt. 19:17





19:18 predicts that there shall be five cities in Egypt that speak the Canaanite language. But that language was never spoken in Egypt, and it is extinct now.





19:23-24 predicts that there will be an alliance between Egypt, Israel, and Assyria. But there has never been any such alliance, and it's unlikely that it ever will since Assyria no longer exists.











Jeremiah prophesies that all nations of the earth will embrace Judaism.





Jeremiah 33:17 ';David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel.'; But the Davidic line of Kings ended with Zedekiah; there were none during the Babylonian captivity, and there are none today.





God promised Zedekiah (Jer.34:5) that he would die peacefully and be buried with his fathers. But in 52:10-11 we see that he died a miserable death in foreign land.














There are more.
This link may help...it will also help you find all the historic %26amp; scientific errors, all the contradictions, and the overwhelming amount of cruelty, violence and injustice;





http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/
There are no prophecies in the Bible. It is interpretation of what is written. You can twist words around to say anything and make it look like a prophecy.
Well, uh, for starters, all of them. But some are sillier than others.
The whole book is a false prophecy. So pick any page you'd like.
You hum 'em,I'll play 'em
If you read the Old Testament's prophesies about Jesus Christ, they ALL came true!


If you wonder if the prophecies of the New Testament are true, just look at the world today!


Every other religion in the world offers salvation by working for it. The problem with this is... at what point do we do enough?


God offers us salvation by grace through Jesus Christ... for FREE!!


Why would anyone not want this salvation? Because they refuse to believe in the only Son of God!
None are false!! He speaks of 'false prophets'!!
No sorry I do not know of any.
There are none.
There are none.

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