I admire your unending patience discussing religion with Christians. Not that you can ever make any headway with people who believe that a god – no, THE God – chose a compilation of very different historical texts that constantly contradict each other – as the basis of THE TRUTH and ideal human behaviour and actions. …but still. Thanks for trying.

Appointed to preach the faith
he had long labored to destroy

Praise God that he pursues us more relentlessly, more devotedly, more lovingly.

I’m so glad God loves you, I’m so glad you were born and I’m so glad I happened across your website. May God continue to bless you on this journey that is leading you into relationship with Christ. Blessed be the name of the Lord! Have a wonderful day my friend.

Really? Give examples of these prophecies. I am sure much of the prophecies that you think were fulfilled are interpreted to fit what you want it to be. For example, wasn’t Jesus supposed to come back in May? And the world is supposed to end in October? There are groups that point to the bible as prediciting those because they interpreted it a certain way. It’s all about having a belief and trying to fit things to make it look like it is true.

“Absolutely! A book that has 100% accuracy in prophecy…”

http://www.freethinkersbooks.com/100fbp.htm

http://www.awitness.org/lostmess/fprophet.html

http://faithskeptic.50megs.com/prophecies.htm

“…the greatest seller of all time…”

Show us those sales figures, please. Don’t include the freebies.

“…not to mentioned the most hated…”

The Qur’an is probably the most hated, but for similar reasons.

“…has power that is unmatched over anything man could write.”

There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that the bible was written by any alleged god(s). The only support for that claim is in the delusional minds of those who believe it – like you who come where with nothing more than your shouts of “holy-hosanna!”

Absolutely! A book that has 100% accuracy in prophecy, the greatest seller of all time not to mentioned the most hated has power that is unmatched over anything man could write.

“Let us not forgot the huge number of prophecies predicted and fulfilled by God’s Word. Absolutely incredible but so is the author.”

Unparalleled, bonafide b.s. Absolutely absurd, but so is the author, Biff.

Nostradamus gave much more predictions, and much more precisely than your god.
Shall we start worshiping Nostradamus?

Typical “prophecy”?
Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord himself will give you[a] a sign: The virgin[b] will conceive and give birth to a son, and[c] will call him Immanuel.[d]

Just imagine! It was well known to B.C mothers and fathers, as it was known to my mother, that a virgin young lady can easily get pregnant without distroying her hymen, if she plays forbidden games (petting).
To “predict” pregnancy of a virgin was much more likely then, than today, because today young ladies know how to avoid danger. They know what makes them pregnant.
Then, finally, some Immanuel was born!
What with Jesus?

Pure idiocy!

Not only unique, but unparalleled in history. Let us not forgot the huge number of prophecies predicted and fulfilled by God’s Word. Absolutely incredible but so is the author.

“I hope this was said tongue-in-cheek, otherwise it sounds rather foolish.”

As opposed to accepting the bible as the word of god?

“This statement doesn’t show much understanding of how scholars in the field view such things. If a “revision” to the Bible were to be published, it would not be accepted.”

How does one authenticate the original bible as opposed to a revision? The obvious answer is that it can’t be. The bible has no more credibility than would a revision “from god.” If any well known religious figure or authority announced that god spoke to him and told him to publish a new book of the bible, then he would be a laughing stock. Yet somehow it’s different that the same b.s. happened in “bible times.”

“The fact that the Bible was written by so many different authors over a span of 1500 years in three different languages and has held it’s cohesive historical and spiritual story line is one of the things that makes it unique amongst literary works and lends credibility to its content.”

No, rather it lends credence to the fact that most people have not advanced much since the 1,500 years that that collection of fairy tales and myths was written.

“Lou 140 – good question. The fact that it can’t be answered does not logically imply that He doesn’t exist. Scientists can not answer where energy or the chemicals required to “create” life orginates from either, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.”

You avoided the obvious implication – that god is imaginary. Scientists don’t answer unanswerable questions with b.s. explanations.