Perhaps the most famous example is the so called prophecy of a virgin birth. That involved a verse that did not even claim that it would be a virgin and was not about Jesus. Isaiah 7 14 was not about a virgin, but a young woman. In context it was about an event that was happening then and not in the future. The error arose from the fact that the Greek Septuagint had a mistranslation of "almah".
Yes. I have heard the ‘argument’ about virgin/young girl mistranslation...
So who told you or taught you that ‘fact’?
How do you ‘prove’ that their teaching of mistranslation is the absolute truth? How did they (whoever you are studying and believing) prove their belief was the correct teaching beyond a doubt? What facts did they present that convinced you?
If one does away with the virgin birth, the Lord Jesus Christ can be done away with as Emmanuel.
If you can so easily do away with the prophecies, how about this layout of the bible from Heinrich Bullinger:
1. First creation (Gen1:1)
2. Satan’s first appearance (Gen 1:2)
3. Restoration and blessing (Gen 1:3-Gen 2)
4. Satan enters (Gen 3)
5. God deals w/mankind in general (Gen 4-11)
6. God deals w/the Jews in particular (Gen 12-Malachi)
7. The First Advent (Matt-John)
8. The transition period of the book of Acts
9. The Church Age (Romans-Philemon) [My addition: Jesus’s church not to be confused w/Rome!]
10. The Second Advent (Rev 19)
11. The restoration of the Jews
12. The Millennial calling out of the Gentiles
13. The binding of Satan (Rev 20:1-3)
14. The Millennial restoration of the earth (Rev 20:4-6)
15. Satan’s final appearance (Rev 20:7-9)
16. The new creation (Rev 21-22)
In Bullinger’s layout, points 8 and 9 are the center events of the bible plan.
There are 7 points before 8. And 7 points following 9.
Points 1-8 are counterpart matches to 9-16.
Points 10-16 are like reading points 1-7 backwards.
The Second Advent, point 10, matches the First Advent, point 7. The restoration of the Jews, point 11, matches God’s dealings with the Jews in the OT, point 6, and so on.
I am sure that you will find something ‘wrong’ with this, as well.
Atheists are some of the most closed-minded people I encounter in my journey.
The very idea of [an] absolute God makes them angry.
I usually avoid the ‘argument’ with atheists, due to the fact that their mind is made up beforehand. And even if I possessed the Lord on video, atheists would claim it somehow ‘fake’.
No amount of evidence would convince a mind that is already ‘made up’.
So, unless you are willing to dialogue, and present your evidences, our continued conversation will be pointless.
And to simply to call me ignorant, hill-billy, naive, stupid, idiot, uneducated, unsophisticated, brain-washed, low IQ, retarded, hateful, judgmental, brain dead, or any of the rest, is nothing new to me.
I have heard it all, been accused of it all, and most of it from my ‘loving’ family!
So if you think you are up to the challenge of discourse, let’s go. If you just want to join my family in their belittling techniques, then I wish you nothing in this life but all prosperity, peace, and
Joy
“If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.”
Deuteronomy 30:10-11 KJV